Summary

Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) publishes employee and employment estimates at detailed geographical and industrial levels and is regarded as the definitive source of official government employee statistics by industry.

Publications

• Employees in the UK by region: provisional results 2021

  Number of employees in the UK, full time and part time, by country and English region, including some local authority districts, from the Business Register and Employment Survey.

• Employees in the UK: provisional results 2021

  Number of employees in the UK, full-time and part-time, by sector, industry, country and English region, from the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES).

• Employees in the UK by industry: provisional results 2021

  The Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) is the official source of employee and employment estimates by detailed geography and industry, for regions and some local authorities.

Data

• Local authority county – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 5

  Annual employee and employment estimates for the UK split by local authority county. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Local authority district – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 6

  Annual employee and employment estimates for the UK split by local authority district. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Broad Industry Group (Standard Industrial Classification) – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 1

  Annual employee and employment estimates for Great Britain and UK split by broad industry group Standard Industrial Classification: SIC 2007. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Industry (two, three and five-digit Standard Industrial Classification) – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 2

  Annual employee and employment estimates for Great Britain and UK split by two, three and five-digit Standard Industrial Classification: SIC 2007. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Region by broad industry group (Standard Industrial Classification) – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 4

  Annual employee and employment estimates for the UK split by region and broad industry group Standard Industrial Classification: SIC 2007. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

• Region – Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES): Table 3

  Annual employee and employment estimates for Great Britain and UK split by region. Results given by full-time or part-time and public or private splits.

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Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   29 September 2022 9:30am

   Reason for change

   Due to other priorities in publishing Census data, the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) Revised 2020 and Provisional 2021 Estimates publication has been delayed so that it may be published to coincide with its release on www.nomisweb.co.uk. ONS apologises for any inconvenience.

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