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The Annual Inquiry into Foreign Direct Investment (AFDI) collects financial data concerning Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The survey is conducted in two parts: the ...
The Annual Population Survey (APS) Household datasets are produced annually and are available from 2004. They allow production of family and household labour market ...
The Annual Population Survey (APS) is a major survey series, which aims to provide data that can produce reliable estimates at local authority level. Key topics covered ...
The Annual Respondents Database (ARD) is constructed from a compulsory business survey. Until 1997 it was created out of the Annual Censuses of Production and ...
The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is one of the largest surveys of the earnings of individuals in the UK. Data on the wages, hours of work, and pensions ...
The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is conducted by the ESRC UK Longitudinal Studies Centre (ULSC), together with the Institute for Social and Economic Research ...
The Business Expenditure on Research and Development is an annual survey whose main purpose is to supply data for policy purposes on Science and Technology, of which ...
The Business Spending on Capital Goods survey is an annual survey of business organisations in the UK that collects data about acquisitions and disposals of capital, ...
The Business Structure Database (BSD) contains a small number of variables for almost all business organisations in the UK. The BSD is derived primarily from the ...
The Capital Stock Dataset is constructed by staff at the Virtual Microdata Laboratory (VML) based at the Office for National Statistics. The data are derived variables ...
The purpose of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Low Emissions R&D Survey, 2008 was to collect information on Research and Development (R&D) undertaken ...
The E-commerce Survey is an annual survey designed to measure the extent of the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and electronic trading by businesses ...
The English Housing Survey (EHS) is a continuous national survey commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) that collects information ...
The General Household Survey (GHS) is a continuous national survey of people living in private households conducted on an annual basis, by the Social Survey Division of ...
The UK's International Trade in Services (ITIS) data are collected from a number of different survey and administrative sources. The ITIS inquiry (formally called the ...
The UK Investment in Intangible Assets Survey (IIA Survey) was launched in 2009 and explores the level of spending and life lengths of private sector investments in ...
Background: The MCS is a large-scale, multi-purpose longitudinal dataset providing information about babies born at the beginning of the 21st century, their progress ...
The Monthly Inquiry into the Distribution and Services Sector (MIDSS) is designed to meet the Government need for the production of a monthly Index of Services (IoS) and ...
The Monthly Production Inquiry (MPI) is designed to meet the government need for the production of a monthly Index of Production (IoP), and is used to estimate the ...
The Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey (MWSS) is the main source of information for three key indicators of Short-Term Earnings generated by the Office for National ...
The National Employer Skills Survey (NESS) collects data about the skills of the workforce of firms in England. A separate, but similar survey is conducted in Scotland ...
The New Annual Survey Panel Dataset (NESPD) contains the New Earnings Survey (NES) data (UK Data Archive SN 6704) in panel form. The NES is sampled on individuals whose ...
The New Earnings Survey (NES) is an annual survey of the earnings of employees in Great Britain. Its primary purpose is to obtain information about the levels, ...
The Occupational Pension Scheme Survey (OPSS) provides a detailed view of the nature of occupational pension provision in the UK by organisations. Until 2000, the ...
PRODCOM (Products of the European Community) is a European Union (EU) wide survey of production mainly for the manufacturing industries collected under Council ...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) conducts a quarterly survey to collect capital expenditure data for various industry groups by asset. It is a statutory survey ...
The Quarterly Fuels Inquiry (QFI) is a quarterly survey among a panel of manufacturing plants. The survey is managed by ONS on behalf of the Department of Energy and ...
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a unique source of articulated information using international definitions of employment and unemployment and economic inactivity, ...
The Scottish Employer Skills Survey (SESS) is a series of large scale surveys undertaken to obtain perspectives of employers on a wide range of workforce skills-related ...
The Scottish Register of Employment (SRE) is an industrial database, collected using a variety of sources, in order to gather information about Scottish industry for use ...
The Small Business Survey (SBS) 2010 is a large scale telephone survey commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) as a follow up to the ...
The UK Innovation Survey (UKIS) provides the main source of information on business innovation in the UK. The survey data is a major resource for research into the ...
Understanding Society, or the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), at the ...
The Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) is a longitudinal survey, which commenced with a first wave of interviews carried out over two years from July 2006 to June 2008. ...
The Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) is a national survey of the state of employment relations and working life inside British workplaces. The purpose of ...
The Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) is a national survey of the state of employment relations and working life inside British workplaces. The purpose of ...
The Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) is a national survey of the state of employment relations and working life inside British workplaces. The 1998 and 2004 ...