London Business Survey 2014 - Business support for SMEs

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Summary

The 2014 London Business Survey (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 London businesses’ awareness and experience of business support available to SMEs corresponding with Section 6 of the London Business Survey 2014: Main Findings report.

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The sources of external advice used by London businesses The topics on which external advice is sought by London businesses Business awareness and use of incubator, accelerator and co-working spaces

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.

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LBS 2014 BS4 Have used Incubator, Accelerator or Co-working spaces.xls N/A 16 December 2025 Not available
LBS 2014 BS3 Awareness of Incubator, Accelerator or Co-working spaces.xls N/A 16 December 2025 Not available
LBS 2014 BS2 How often businesses seek external advice on selected topics.xls N/A 16 December 2025 Not available
LBS 2014 BS1 How often businesses seek external advice from selected sources.xls N/A 16 December 2025 Not available

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