Annual Purchases Survey, 2015-2022: Secure Access

<p>The primary aim of the <span style="font-style: italic;">Annual Purchases Survey</span> is to provide a comprehensive picture of the goods and services used or transformed in the production process and running of UK businesses, otherwise referred to as intermediate consumption. This product-level information is used in supply and use tables (SUTs), which are an integral part of the measurement of gross domestic product (GDP). The Eurostat Manual of Supply Use and Input-Output Tables recommends that benchmarked supply and use tables are produced at least every five years based on updated source data. A previous survey, entitled the Purchases Inquiry, was suspended in 2006 due to insufficient quality in the data and to reduce the Office for National Statistics (ONS) costs and burden on UK businesses (final reference period being 2004). However, given the survey provides important information on the products that UK businesses purchase, it was decided that it should be reintroduced. The new survey aims to strengthen the estimates of the intermediate consumption structure of the UK economy. <br><br>In 2015, <span style="font-style: italic;">Annual Purchases Survey</span> questionnaires were sent by the ONS to approximately 31,000 businesses in the UK. In the UK, it is a compulsory survey that is administered under the statutory powers of the Statistics of Trade Act 1947 for Great Britain and under the Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 for Northern Ireland. Data are not available for 2019 and 2020 due to quality concerns related to the coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic, which caused high levels of non‐response and internal resource issues.<br></p><p><span data-ng-show="abstractDisplay" class="" style=""><i>Linking to Other Business Studies</i><br>
These data contain IDBR reference numbers. These are anonymous but
unique reference numbers assigned to business organisations. Their
inclusion allows researchers to combine different business survey
sources together. Researchers may consider applying for other business
data to assist their research.</span></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;">Latest edition information: </span><br>For the fourth edition (May 2024), data for 2022 were added and the 2021 data were updated. Questionnaires and data dictionary were also added for each year.<br></p>

年度采购调查（Annual Purchases Survey）的核心目标是全面呈现英国企业在生产运营过程中使用或转化的商品与服务，即中间消耗（intermediate consumption）。此类产品级信息被应用于供给与使用表（Supply and Use Tables, SUTs），而供给与使用表是国内生产总值（Gross Domestic Product, GDP）核算的核心组成部分。欧盟统计局《供给、使用与投入产出表手册》建议，基于更新后的源数据，至少每五年编制一次基准供给与使用表。此前一项名为《采购调查》（Purchases Inquiry）的调研因数据质量不足，且为降低英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics, ONS）的运营成本与英国企业的填报负担，于2006年暂停，其最终参考周期为2004年。但鉴于该调研可为英国企业的采购产品品类提供关键信息，相关方决定重新启动该项目。新版调研旨在优化英国经济中间消耗结构的核算估算。

2015年，英国国家统计局向英国境内约31000家企业发放了《年度采购调查》问卷。在英国，该调研属于法定强制调查：大不列颠地区依据1947年《贸易统计法案》赋予的法定权限实施，北爱尔兰地区则依据1988年《就业（北爱尔兰）令》开展。由于2019年与2020年受新冠病毒（COVID-19）疫情影响，出现大量无应答情况且内部资源出现问题，存在数据质量隐患，因此该时段的相关数据暂未对外公布。

关联其他商业调研
本数据集包含IDBR参考编号（IDBR reference numbers），此类编号为匿名且唯一的企业组织标识。纳入该编号可支持研究人员整合多源商业调研数据，研究人员可申请使用其他商业数据集以辅助其研究工作。

最新版本信息：
截至2024年5月发布的第四版中，新增了2022年的数据并更新了2021年的数据集，同时补充了各年度的问卷与数据字典。