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 projects
Analysis of Middle Market Firms
Assessing the Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Small & Medium Sized Enterprises (SME Survey)
Barriers to Innovation & Growth in High Technology SMEs: The Role of Absorptive Capacity
CIS4 & Oslo Manual Revision: Early Stage Pilot
Competition, Takeovers & Investment
Competitiveness & Productivity of the UK Design Engineering Sector
Competitiveness of the UK & its Multinational Companies
Contribution of Services & Other Sectors to Australian Productivity Growth 1995-2005
Corporate Law & Economic Performance
Corporate Rescue: Impact of the Enterprise Act 2002
Corporate Responses to Macroeconomic Changes & Shocks
Design Study for a Survey of UK Management Practices
Finance, Training & SME Performance: An Evaluation Study of the Small Business Initiative
Flexible Specialisation, Competitive Advantage & Business Structuring in the UK Computer Industry
Globalising Behaviour of UK Firms in a Comparative Context
High Tech CEOs & Their Businesses
Impact of the Enterprise Act 2002
Impact of the National Minimum Wage on Small & Medium Sized Enterprises
Job Insecurity, Polarisation, Social Exclusion & Flexibility
Knowledge Exchange between Arts & Humanities and the Private, Public & Third Sectors
Law & Finance in Emerging Markets
Manufacturing Strategy & Competitiveness
Missing Observations in Survey Data: An Experimental Approach
National Small & Medium Sized Business Surveys
New Modes of Innovation: Managerial & Strategic Business Practices & Open Innovation (UK~IRC)
Northern Ireland SME Benchmarking Survey
Role of Banks versus Venture Capital in Financing Small Enterprises in Successful European Regions
SME Finance & Innovation in the Current Economic Crisis
Start-up Finance: A Study of Micro Finance amongst Soft & Hard Companies
Structural Change, Competitive Advantage & the Regulation of the Media
Survey of National Health Service Reforms & the Working Lives of Midwives & Physiotherapists