Number and rate (per 10,000 adults) of VAT/PAYE registered stocks and sites operating in Scotland.
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Estimates about the number of VAT/PAYE registered stocks and sites operating in Scotland, broken down by various groupings including industry sector, business size, local authority area, intermediate zone areas, and locality are produced by Scottish Government within the Businesses in Scotland publication.
Statistics from the Businesses in Scotland publication are used to provide insight into the characteristics of Scotland’s business stock, and how Scotland’s business stock has changed over time.
An enterprise (business stock) can be defined as the smallest combination of legal units (generally based on VAT and/or PAYE records) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. Note an enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
A local unit (business site) is an enterprise or part thereof (e.g. a workshop, factory, warehouse, office, mine or depot) situated in a geographically identified place.
More detailed information can be found on the Businesses in Scotland website.
The population estimates used to form the rates are sourced from the Mid-Year Population Estimates, published by the National Records of Scotland. The term “per 10,000 adults” is defined as people aged 16 or over resident in Scotland.
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For information on quality management, please see Businesses in Scotland – Methodology.
For information on quality measures, please see Businesses in Scotland – Methodology.
Data can be compared between different industries, local authority areas and to look at trends over time.
For comparisons with other UK regions, business stock estimates for the UK and all regions of the UK (including Scotland) are published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). A key difference between the UK series for Scotland and the Businesses in Scotland publication estimates is that Businesses in Scotland data includes all enterprises that operate in Scotland regardless of where the business is based. There are other differences between the publications, and these are explained in the following on-line information notes: Description of UK business data sources.
For other tables, commentary and more methodology please see the Businesses in Scotland – Methodology website.
Businesses in Scotland data is produced from an extract taken from the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) recording the position of units at March of the reference year.
It is the aim to publish statistics on business stocks, and sites for Scotland, Scottish Local Authority Areas, and other geographical dimensions as soon as possible after the release of the Scottish Government’s Businesses in Scotland publication, which is published each year in early November.
In general, the figures for registered enterprises should be final and should not be revised in future, since they are based on a snapshot in time from the IDBR which cannot change. However sometimes, when quality assuring the data for the latest year, errors in terms of the industry classification applied to businesses may come to light in which case we may correct the erroneous business classifications in previous years.
Revisions to previously published population estimates are generally planned, although there can be occasions when they are unplanned, and are the result of either improvements in statistical methods or the availability of additional data. Corrections are unplanned and may occur when errors in either the statistical data or methodology are found after release of the data. For the list of all population estimates that have recently been revised or corrected, please visit the National Records of Scotland’s Revisions and Corrections.
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