Employment surveys

The following sector profile articles use counts of jobs derived from the business register employment survey, and are split by the main standard industrial classification codes. 

Local estimates of gross value added (GVA) (income approach) are published by the office for national statistics that also fit these sectors. We have therefore included estimates of the economic value generated by each sector or amalgam of sectors. 

The agriculture, forestry and food article is one of the sectors, but unfortunately results from the annual business survey are only available at the North West level for this particular sector. Instead, the article uses alternative local employment figures from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.      

All UK limited companies are registered at Companies House, and the organisation's website includes basic company data. The profiles mention a large number of Lancashire companies that are allocated to the specific sectors, and this has been achieved by using the standard industrial classification code given to each business on the companies house website. 

This section also includes four employment articles that use results from the annual population survey, and a job densities article.