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Regional Services Exports and Business Registers
(UK)Department of Business, Innovation and
Skills (BIS)

• Working Party on Trade in Goods and Services
• 2009, OECD

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UK Cross Government priorities include

• Improve the economic performance of all English
  regions
• reduce the gap in economic growth rates between
  regions
• Public service agreement targets
• GVA per head
• Regional Development Agencies

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Major Sources of UK Trade in Services

• Transportation
• Civil Aviation Authority
• Chamber of Shipping
• Travel
• International Passenger Survey
• Insurance finance
• Lloyds other insurance companies
• Bank of England
• Security dealers
• Communication, Construction, Computers
  Information, Royalties, Business services,
  Personal, cultural recreational
• International Trade in Services Survey
• operated by Office for National Statistics (ONS)

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Coverage UK exports of services, 2007
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Regional analysis about 30 of UK exports of
services
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Regional analysis methodology

• Individual company transactions available at
  Reporting unit (RU) level
• geographic location of export transaction not
  collected
• respondent burden and quality
• Link ITIS company record into Business register
• gives local unit (LU) structure with geography
  and employment
• apportion export value to LUs by employment

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UK Government Office Regions

• 9 English regions
• North East
• North West
• Yorkshire the Humber
• East Midlands
• West Midlands
• Eastern
• London
• South East
• South West
• Rest of UK
• Scotland, Wales Northern Ireland combined

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ITIS survey, 2007 Annual survey of about 17,000
businesses

• Known traders from ABI filter question
• Weighted sample from IDBR

Number Share of ITIS value
Quarterly panel 700 60
Annual panel 6,300 27
Number Share of ITIS value
High propensity 10,000 12
ABI 6,000 1
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Exclusion of ITIS categories in Regional analysis
where

• ITIS coverage small part of BPM total
• Financial services (20)
• Personal, cultural and recreational services
  (40)
• Other sources added to ITIS contribution
• Exclusions account for 20 of total ITIS value

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Regional Analysis Table layout

• Group products by BPM categories
• Adjust to published BPM totals
• Disclosure checking
• Dont publish Regional totals

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Regional value of Exports of servicesselected
products, 2007
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Apportioning by LU employment

• 1 LU or all LUs in one region
• correct allocation
• Small number of LUs / regions
• best available compromise
• Large number of LUs / regions
• unlikely that all LUs involved in export of
  services
• e.g. companies with many retail outlets in
  Distribution and Communication industries
• allocate to RU, probably headquarters

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Company structure, 2007by share of total export
value
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Company structure, 2007by share of total export
value
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Effect of different LU allocation methods on
share of regional export value
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Effect of different LU allocation methods on
share of regional export value
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Effect of different LU allocation methods on
share of regional export value - Computer services
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Regional share of Exports of servicesselected
products, 2007
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Share of regionalised exports of services, 2001
and 2006
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Regional share of Exports of services, 2007

• Conclusions
• Gives indication of level and share of selected
  products (approx 30 of UK total)
• Value collected at reporting unit (RU) level
• Apportioned to regions by local unit (LU)
  employment
• Allocated to RU for companies with large number
  of LUs
• Annual variations may be of lower reliability
• Evidence that gap between regions is reducing
  2001-06