Accounting (HE): Business Statistics

Statista is a Google-like search tool for researching market and consumer data. It also provides reports such as overviews of a topic, outlook reports on current trends, and surveys, and displays information in charts, graphs and infographics. Search for information on a company such as Netflix, topics such as wearable devices, or industry reports such as Retail Trade in the UK. To browse, remember to select the UK flag icon to restrict your results to UK reports.

Each IBIS World report includes a section with Key Statistics such as Industry data (revenue, establishments and enterprises, employment, exports and imports, and wages. You can find the annual change for the previous 5+ years, and predicted changes for the next 5 years.

The UK's largest independent producer of official statistics. The ONS collects statistics on the economy, population and society and also run and publish the census every 10 years. The ONS publishes over 600 releases a year. Statistics are collected into 4 main headings: Business, Industry and Trade (eg. business activity, innovation, different industries); Economy (eg. GDP, inflation, productivity); Employment and the Labour Market (eg. earnings, productivity, unemployment); and People, Population and the Community (eg. culture, education, health, housing, leisure, migration).

This government site collects and publishes official statistics from government departments (eg. Home Office, Dept. for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) and public bodies such as the BBCACAS, or Companies House. Search by topic, world location, date and organisation.

This site allows you to search for data published by central government, local government, and public bodies. This site is to support the government's commitment to providing access to Open Data.

Please note: This census data is from 2011 which is the latest data. The next census is due to be taken in March 2021.