Establishment stock change trends

BDS supplies annual establishment stock counts together with gross establishment entries, exits, and their rates for the same supported area, industry, and year dimensions. Comparing pinned annual stocks while retaining gross entry and exit directly establishes net establishment-stock change without conflating stock with flow.

BED's standing age tables publish total establishment counts and establishment net change by age, while the coordinated BED series publish openings, closings, births, and deaths. Together they directly distinguish net stock change from gross entry and exit for supported geography, industry, and observation periods.

Fixed annual July snapshots, one record per included operating location, persistent location identifiers, year-specific industry/geography fields, and filtered record/frequency counts support operating-location stock levels and net changes by snapshot. Persistent IDs also let an analysis distinguish database appearances and disappearances from net stock change, but those flows must be labelled observed entry/exit rather than exact business openings or closures, and no official establishment-universe completeness is claimed.

QCEW publishes quarterly and annual-average covered-establishment stock counts and corresponding prior-year level and percentage changes by area, industry, ownership, and aggregation/size class. This supports net stock change only, not gross entry, exit, opening, closure, birth, or death; preserve compared periods, classification basis, disclosure, and release status.