Decision Maker Panel in the UK
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Details
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Summary
The Decision Maker Panel is a survey of UK businesses. It focusses on businesses expectations and uncertainty, particularly in relation Covid-19 and Brexit.
Description
The panel draws information from Financial Officers in United Kingdom companies operating in a broad range of industries and is designed to be representative of the population of United Kingdom businesses. The sampling frame for the Decision Maker Panel is the population of all 48,000 active United Kingdom businesses with 10 or more employees in the Bureau van Dijk Financial Analysis Made Easy database. It covers small, medium and large private sector businesses across all industries. Firms are selected randomly from this sampling frame and are invited by telephone to join the panel by a recruitment team based at the University of Nottingham. This approach helps to ensure that the survey provides a representative view of the United Kingdom economy. Once firms are part of the panel, they receive monthly emails with links to a 5 to 10 minute online survey. Firms that do not respond to the survey for three consecutive months are re-contacted by telephone to check whether they received the emails or have other reasons for not completing the survey. When the Decision Maker Panel firm recruitment team first contact firms they ask to speak to the Chief Financial Officer and failing that the Chief Executive Officer. The surveys have a rotating three panel structure each member is randomized at entry into one of the three panels. Each panel is given one third of the questions in any given month, so that within each quarter all firms rotate through all questions. Survey A typically focussed on sales and prices, Survey B on employment and Survey C on capital expenditure. In addition, since May 2019 there has been an introductory questionnaire which all new panel members receive in their first month which asks about the characteristics of the business.
About this data
- Data creator
- Bank of England
- Temporal coverage
- 01 August 2016 to 31 October 2022
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Dataset theme
- Business and economy
- Restrictions for access
- Limited to specific individuals
- Project approval
- Projects must be accredited and have approval from the data owner
- Search keywords
- Business Brexit COVID-19 Economy Employment Investment
Metadata
Metadata
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Dataset themeMain category for the topic of the resource
- Business and economy
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Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource
- Survey
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Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset
- UK
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Temporal coverageThe timeframes covered by these data
- 01 August 2016 to 31 October 2022
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FrequencyThe frequency at which the dataset resource is published or updated
- Monthly
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Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset
- Not applicable
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Data creatorThe name of the organisation that produced or published this resource
- Bank of England
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Data contributorsThe name(s) of any organisation(s), other than the data supplier or provider, that have data which are included in this dataset resource
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Licensing statusThe license used for making this resource available and defining how it can be used
- Restricted
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Disclosure controlThe standard or bespoke disclosure control rules that apply to this dataset
- Standard disclosure rules apply
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Restrictions for accessRestrictions for users and researchers accessing data in Google Cloud Platform
- Limited to specific individuals
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Research outputsThe approval route researchers must take for their outputs to be published
- Research outputs must be approved by the data owner
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Project approvalThe project approvals needed for this resource
- Projects must be accredited and have approval from the data owner
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Research disclaimerThe disclaimer required to be published with the outputs for this dataset
- A disclaimer must be published with research outputs
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AcronymAny other names or acronyms used to refer to the data
- DMP
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IDS Business Catalogue identifierThe identifier for this dataset resource
- 0.0198
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ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated
- Bureau van Dijk Financial Analysis Made Easy database