Study title
UK Business Data Survey, 2022
Creator
Study number / PID
9087 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-9087-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The UK Business Data Survey (UKBDS), commissioned by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, began in 2021. The survey is a telephone- and online-based quantitative and qualitative study of UK businesses. It gathers evidence on the importance and awareness of digital data use for UK businesses and seeks to understand the role of digital data in UK businesses, international transfers of data and activities undertaken for data protection compliance.
The 2022 UKBDS was the second time the survey had been carried out. The quantitative survey took place from November 2021 to February 2022 and the qualitative interviews were undertaken in February 2022. A number of questions asked of businesses were new to the 2022 survey.
Main Topics:
The 2022 survey covers the following business practices relating to data:
- acquisition and sharing
- skills and foundations (as defined in the National Data Strategy)
- infrastructure
- data protection
- international transfer
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Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
22/11/2021 - 11/02/2022
Country
Time dimension
Analysis unit
Universe
The 2022 data includes responses from 5,086 UK businesses spread across business size and sector and weighted based on BEIS Business Population Estimates to be representative of all UK businesses. The 2021 data includes responses from 4,500 UK businesses spread across business size and sector and weighted based on BEIS Business Population Estimates to be representative of all UK businesses.
Sampling procedure
Kind of data
Data collection mode
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
2023
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use is not permitted