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Longitudinal Inter-Departmental Business Register in the UK

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Summary

The Longitudinal Inter-Department Business Register is a longitudinal version, for turnover and employee data only, of the Iter-Department Business Register database.

Description

The Longitudinal Inter-Department Business Register (LIDBR) is a longitudinal version, for turnover and employee data only, of the Office for National Statistics owned IDBR and Business Structure Database (BSD) database. Data on the LIDBR allows assessment of changes in turnover and employee data in individual businesses by providing good quality time series data. Each edition consists of two tables. One contains annual turnover data for all IDBR enterprises from 2006 onwards, with reporting lags removed. The other is similar but contains employee data. Each table contains around 80 million rows. The data can be linked back to the IDBR and BSD to obtain other data, such as addresses, using the entref variable. The original LIDBR covered 2006 to 2016. The latest covers 2006 to 2018. Data is not overwritten, with older versions of the database kept for reference purposes (as lags in data mean that even when datasets cover the same period, the older data may have been updated). At present there are no plans to produce updated versions of the database covering the period from 2018 onwards.

About this data

Data creator
Department for Business and Trade
Temporal coverage
01 January 2006 to 31 December 2018
Frequency
Annual
Dataset theme
Business and economy
Restrictions for access
Access for all accredited researchers
Project approval
Projects must be accredited and have approval from the data owner
Search keywords
Business Employment Turnover

Metadata

Metadata

Dataset themeMain category for the topic of the resource
Business and economy
Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource
Administrative
Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset
UK
Temporal coverageThe timeframes covered by these data
01 January 2006 to 31 December 2018
FrequencyThe frequency at which the dataset resource is published or updated
Annual
Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset
Not applicable
Data creatorThe name of the organisation that produced or published this resource
Department for Business and Trade
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
Licensing statusThe license used for making this resource available and defining how it can be used
Restricted
Disclosure controlThe standard or bespoke disclosure control rules that apply to this dataset
Bespoke disclosure rules apply
Restrictions for accessRestrictions for users and researchers accessing data in Google Cloud Platform
Access for all accredited researchers
Research outputsThe approval route researchers must take for their outputs to be published
Research outputs must be sent to the data owner
Project approvalThe project approvals needed for this resource
Projects must be accredited and have approval from the data owner
Research disclaimerThe disclaimer required to be published with the outputs for this dataset
No requirements
AcronymAny other names or acronyms used to refer to the data
LIDBR
IDS Business Catalogue identifierThe identifier for this dataset resource
0.0176
ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated
Inter-Department Business Register