London Business Survey 2014 - Business Profile

The [2014 London Business Survey](/london-business-survey-2014/) (LBS) is an innovative survey designed by the Office for National Statistics, on behalf of the London Enterprise Panel and the GLA. The survey collected information from a representative sample of private sector businesses in London in May-July 2014.

This dataset contains information on the profile of London businesses corresponding with Section 1 of the [London Business Survey 2014: Main Findings report.](http://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/business-and-economy/business-and-economy-publications/london-business-survey-2014)

Information is provided on:

* The country or region of business ownership of London businesses

* UK versus foreign ownership of London businesses

* What London businesses provide: goods, services and intellectual property

* The types of customers of London businesses

* The age of London businesses, including the numbers of start-ups

As with any survey, the 2014 LBS is based on a sample and as such is subject to variability in the results. Care should therefore be taken in interpreting the survey findings. For all estimates, lower and upper limits of 95% confidence intervals are provided in the data files to assist with interpretation. The LBS results represent the population of business units in London. A business unit is defined as a site/workplace, which may also be a head office if the head office is in London. It will be the whole business in the case of businesses which only have one site, or part of the business in the case of multi-site firms.

The results are presented by enterprise size band and industry sector.

《2014年伦敦商业调查》（LBS）是由国家统计局受伦敦企业委员会和伦敦市政府委托设计的一项创新性调查。该调查于2014年5月至7月间对伦敦私营部门的代表性企业样本进行了信息收集。

本数据集包含了与《2014年伦敦商业调查：主要发现报告》第1节相对应的伦敦企业概况信息。

信息内容包括：
* 伦敦企业所有权所属的国家或地区
* 伦敦企业中英国与外国所有权的情况
* 伦敦企业提供的产品、服务及知识产权
* 伦敦企业的客户类型
* 伦敦企业的年龄，包括初创企业的数量

与任何调查一样，2014年LBS基于样本数据，因此结果存在一定变异性。因此，在解读调查结果时应谨慎。数据文件中提供了所有估计值的95%置信区间的上下限，以协助解读。LBS结果代表了伦敦的商业单元总体。商业单元被定义为可能也是总部所在地的办公场所，如果总部位于伦敦。对于只有一个场所的企业，商业单元即为整个企业；对于多场所企业，商业单元则为企业的部分。

结果按企业规模和行业类别进行展示。