Does anyone know if there has been statistical analysis conducted into the sizes of companies within Companies House? For instance what percentage of companies that file are considered small or micro etc. I realise a calculation is required to figure out the size of each company so it might be quite involved to do this at scale.
I’m not aware of anything but you should be able to get this information quite easily from the Company data product downloads - Companies House. You could download the latest month’s files (7 zips), open each one in excel and filter each one on ‘AccountCategory’ - this would give you each company ‘size’ (micro, small, full etc.). This way you could also filter out non UK (or English, Scottish, Welsh and NI) companies (CountryOfOrigin), take out ‘dormant’ (AccountCategory) and liquidated (CompanyStatus) and aggregate the results from each of the 7 sheets. This way might be a tad laborious but would get you there (personally I’d download the zips and then read them in with pandas using python and run some analytics on the dataframes using Numpy - saves getting ratty with the big spreadsheets :). Have fun!
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My latest counts:
ACCOUNTS TYPE NOT AVAILABLE 3835
AUDIT EXEMPTION SUBSIDIARY 23091
AUDITED ABRIDGED 1533
DORMANT 659275
FILING EXEMPTION SUBSIDIARY 337
FULL 94257
GROUP 26222
INITIAL 7
MEDIUM 758
MICRO ENTITY 1688499
NO ACCOUNTS FILED 1536617
PARTIAL EXEMPTION 37
SMALL 71529
TOTAL EXEMPTION FULL 1275424
TOTAL EXEMPTION SMALL 11754
UNAUDITED ABRIDGED 169056
Hope this is useful.
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…but apologies for the formatting 