DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates: Business Births and Deaths
These experimental statistics report the number of new businesses in DCMS sectors, and the number that ceased trading for each year between 2010 and 2018.
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About
These Economic Estimates are Official Statistics, used to provide an estimate of the number of business births and deaths in DCMS sectors.
These statistics cover the following DCMS sectors:
Creative Industries Cultural Sector Digital Sector Gambling Sport Telecoms Tourism (defined here as tourism industries)
In addition to the standard DCMS sectors, this release includes figures for the Audio-Visual sector.
A definition for each sector is available in the associated methodology note along with details of methods and data limitations. Civil Society is not covered in this release, as the sector is not defined on an equivalent basis.
Released
09 July 2020
Feedback
DCMS aims to continuously improve the quality of estimates and better meet user needs and welcomes feedback on this release. Feedback should be sent to DCMS via email at evidence@culture.gov.uk.
The UK Statistics Authority
This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics, as produced by the UK Statistics Authority. The Authority has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.
The responsible statistician for this release is Rishi Vaidya. For further details about the estimates, or to be added to a distribution list for future updates, please email us at evidence@dcms.gov.uk.
Quality assurance report
This document summarises the quality assurance processes applied during production of the release. It covers quality assurance carried out by both DCMS and our data providers (ONS).
Pre-release access
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