Businesses In Scotland 2020

11th November 2020

The Businesses in Scotland publication provides information on the number of businesses (also known as enterprises) operating in Scotland as at March 2020. The main purpose of the publication is to provide an estimate of Scotland's business stock (the number of businesses operating in Scotland).

Within the publication, the Scottish business stock is broken down by various dimensions including:

industry

business size

local authority area

urban/rural area

country of ownership

The publication includes all businesses that operate in Scotland regardless of where the business is based.

The latest figures are as at March 2020. Note that the data for this release is produced from an extract taken from the Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR) recording the position of businesses as at 13 March 2020. As such, no effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will be visible in these data.

1. Introduction

The ‘Businesses in Scotland' publication provides information on the number of businesses (also known as enterprises) operating in Scotland. The main purpose of the publication is to provide an estimate of Scotland's business stock (the number of businesses operating in Scotland). Within the publication, the Scottish business stock is broken down by various dimensions including industry, business size, local authority area, urban/rural area and country of ownership. The publication includes all businesses that operate in Scotland regardless of where the business is based. This differs from UK-wide publications that tend to publish region/country results according to the registered office (base/head-quarter) of a business. Businesses in Scotland goes wider than this by providing statistics on all businesses operating in Scotland, those based/head-quartered in Scotland and also all other businesses with a presence in Scotland. The focus of the publication is on private sector businesses, where the private sector is defined as including the following business types:

Companies (including Building Societies)

Sole Proprietors

Partnerships

Public Corporations/Nationalised Bodies

Non-profit making bodies and mutual associations

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