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Small and Medium Enterprise Statistics Public Consultation BIS has now published the government response to the consultation on Small and Medium Enterprise Statistics for the UK and Regions. As a result of the consultation some changes will be made to the methodology and the format of the forthcoming SME Statistics 2008. Full guidance on these changes will be published alongside SME Statistics 2008. The SME Statistics will now include regional data within every annual release. This is a change from the past situation where regional data was produced only every two years. SME Statistics 2008 will therefore include regional data. For more information on the changes to SME Statistics 2008 and other future editions of SME Statistics please see the consultation document. Content of the Small and Medium Enterprise Statistics The SME Statistics include data on enterprises of all sizes, but contain more detail on enterprises in the smaller size-bands. Data tables show the number of businesses, employment and turnover, in each category, broken down by the number of employees. Table 1 shows private sector, Table 2 shows Whole Economy - i.e. private sector / Government / non-profit, Table 3 shows companies / sole proprietorships / partnerships, and Tables 4-7 show breakdowns by the Standard Industrial Classification, with 7 being the most detailed. Where regional data are available, they appear in Tables 8 to 24. SME Statistics 1994 to 2007
* Due to resource limitations the regional statistics are now only produced every other year. The next update to the regional statistics will be for SME Statistics 2009 in Summer 2010. A WinZip file is also available here (2 mb) which contains the data tables from all the publications on this web site. For further information on these statistics please contact enterprise.statistics@bis.gsi.gov.uk Last updated on 02 July, 2009 at 14:31 |