ONS tools and services for Local Economic Assessments

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ONS tools and services for Local Economic
Assessments
Ian Kay, ONS Regional Statistician (Yorkshire and
The Humber)
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Contents

• Support for LEAs from ONS Regional Statisticians
  team
• Includes Inter-Departmental Business Register,
  Gross Value Added, Annual Business Inquiry 1 and
  2
• Support for LEAs from ONS Centre for Regional and
  Local Statistics
• Includes software tools demonstration

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A. ONS Regional Statisticians on LEAs

• Statistical leadership on data relevance,
  accuracy, timeliness, accessibility and coherence
  
• Feed back requirements to ONS
• Please use us for advice
• Limited resource so cannot read whole LEAs

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A. ONS sources by theme

• Business and enterprise now
• Inter-Departmental Business Register
• Annual Business Inquiry 1
• Regional Accounts
• Annual Business Inquiry 2
• Labour Market this afternoon

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A1. Inter-Departmental Business Register

• Holds over 2 million records all UK businesses
  registered for VAT and/or PAYE
• Limited capacity for tabulations by Regional
  Statisticians
• Contact details for ONS IDBR bespoke data service
  are at www.statistics.gov.uk/idbr

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A1. IDBR tables for LEAs

• Available before end 2009
• For every lower tier authority in England (2008
  definition)
• 2-digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
  2007 breakdown
• Enterprise count, employment and turnover
• (data issue over head office effect)
• Local Unit count and employment
• (data issue over comparability with ABI1)

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A1. IDBR variables

• Count, turnover and employment
• 5-digit Standard Industrial Classification
  (SIC)2003 and SIC2007
• Local authority, ward
• Lower and Middle layer Super Output Area
• Legal status
• Deprivation and rurality
• 2005 onwards 2009 only

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A2. Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) 1

• ABI1 has employment data
• More accurate than IDBR for whole authorities
• www.nomisweb.co.uk has SIC2003 data up to and
  including 2007 Chancellors notice needed
• 2008 data released 16 December 2009
• 2008 data available for SIC2003 and SIC2007

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A3. Regional Accounts

• Regional Accounts is best source for Gross Value
  Added time (GVA) series
• www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk14
  650
• Combines Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings,
  HMRC tax self-assessment, DEFRA...

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A3. Regional Accounts

• Limitations
• NUTS3 only York, Hull, East Riding, Sheffield,
  Bradford and Leeds other authorities are
  aggregated
• Limited industries
• GVA per head suffers from commuting effect
• Addition to presentation 5 October GVA per job
  and per hour available though only as an index
• http//stats.berr.gov.uk/reppsa2/productivity.asp
• Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics

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A4. Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) 2

• ABI2 has financial data
• Free regional data for all industries
  www.statistics.gov.uk/abi/whatsnew.asp
• Industry 4-digit SIC2003 (but no SIC2003 01 to
  03, 65 to 67, and parts of 80 and 85 missing)

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A4. Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) 2

• Bespoke data service abi2_at_ons.gov.uk, 01633
  456601
• Full list of variables on next slide
• Geography all districts and unitary authorities
  (so can do city regions)
• Results for small groups are likely to need
  suppression

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A4. Annual Business Inquiry (ABI) 2

• Variables available for regional data

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A4. ABI2 possible analysis example
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B. ONS CRLS support for LEAs

• ONS Centre for Regional and Local Statistics
  (CRLS) are
• Assisting with IDeA guidance
• Tailoring local profiles for LEAs
• Producing software tools that will help LEAs

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B1. IDeA guidance

• Draft ONS spreadsheet of useful sources is
  available on page 28 of draft IDeA guidance
  (posted on 31 July www.communities.idea.gov.uk
  LEA forum)
• Improved spreadsheet will be on www.data4nr.net
  with metadata and links

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B1. ONS sheet of data sources
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B2. ONS CRLS Local Profile tools

• Available by March 2010 aiming for earlier
• Based around sources in spreadsheet on previous
  slide
• Consists of a spreadsheet on a CD (unlike HTML
  profiles on www.nomisweb.co.uk)
• Interactive clicking options will alter the
  content of charts and text

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B3. ONS software tools on CD

• Demonstrations of
• Atlas of Deprivation 2007
• Commuter View
• Prototype of Change Over Time Analysis (COTA)
• For final version of COTA, and data behind it
• http//tinyurl.com/CoTA-Guidance
• (also use this link if we run out of above CDs)

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B3. ONS Boundary Viewer

• Available at http//neighbourhood.statistics.gov.u
  k

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B3. ONS Boundary Viewer
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Contact details

• Ian Kay, ONS Regional Statistician for Yorkshire
  and The Humber
• Located with Yorkshire Forward, 2 Victoria Place,
  Leeds LS11 5AE
• ian.kay_at_ons.gsi.gov.uk
• Desk telephone [phone]
• Mobile telephone [phone]