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Annual business survey (UK)

Survey of production

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ4769648 ↗
Source-derived summary

The annual business survey, formerly the annual business inquiry, is a census of production in the United Kingdom, produced by the Office for National Statistics. It was introduced in 1988 and consolidated earlier surveys. Results were first published in 2000.

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“Annual business survey (UK)” enters the record as survey of production. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Annual, business and survey can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Annual, business and survey.
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This entry incorporates text from “Annual business survey (UK)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.