The CBR has executed postal, online, telephone and face-to-face surveys; and created and archived a wide range of databases. These have been managed by the Survey and Database Unit whose objectives are:
- To ensure the efficient design, management and costing of CBR project surveys including the CBR biennial survey of small and medium sized enterprises.
- To advise on questionnaire design, survey method, choice of sampling frames, and data inputting and cleaning procedures in CBR project surveys.
- To advise on statistical software use with CBR datasets.
- To archive data at CBR, and where appropriate organise the deposit of ESRC sponsored datasets with the UK Data Archive.
Associated research themes
Associated research projects
Analysis of Middle Market Firms
Assessing the Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME Survey)
Barriers to Innovation and Growth in High Technology SMEs: The Role of Absorptive Capacity
CIS4 and Oslo Manual Revision: Early Stage Pilot
Competition, Takeovers and Investment
Competitiveness and Productivity of the UK Design Engineering Sector
The Competitiveness of the UK and its Multinational Companies
The Contribution of Services and Other Sectors to Australian Productivity Growth 1995-2005
Corporate Law and Economic Performance
Corporate Rescue: Impact of the Enterprise Act 2002
Corporate Responses to Macroeconomic Changes and Shocks
Design Study for a Survey of UK Management Practices
Finance, Training and SME Performance: An Evaluation Study of the Small Business Initiative
Flexible Specialisation, Competitive Advantage and Business Structuring in the UK Computer Industry
The Future of Professional Work
The Globalising Behaviour of UK Firms in a Comparative Context
High Tech CEOs and Their Businesses
Impact of the Enterprise Act 2002
The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Job Insecurity, Polarisation, Social Exclusion and Flexibility
Knowledge Exchange between Arts and Humanities and the Private, Public and Third Sectors
Law and Finance in Emerging Markets
Manufacturing Strategy and Competitiveness
Missing Observations in Survey Data: An Experimental Approach
The National Small and Medium Sized Business Surveys
New Modes of Innovation: Managerial and Strategic Business Practices and Open Innovation (UK~IRC)
Northern Ireland SME Benchmarking Survey
SME Finance and Innovation in the Current Economic Crisis
Startup Finance: A Study of Micro Finance amongst Soft and Hard Companies
Structural Change, Competitive Advantage and the Regulation of the Media
Survey of National Health Service Reforms and the Working Lives of Midwives and Physiotherapists