Market Research and Stats

Market Research Statistics Surveys

• Market Research & the Internet
  A useful guide by Phil Bradley. Shows you how to use the Internet to do your research.
  
• Market Research
  Key starting points for market research, from Karen Blakeman at RBA Information Services.
  An excellent set of links.
  
• Key Note
  their free executive summaries and content pages may sometimes be enough for your needs. If you can visit Business Insight, you can see printed Key Note reports.

Statistics

• National Statistics
  UK Government and Departmental Statistics, including demographics, social trends, economy.
  
• Health & Safety Executive
  Safety statistics.
  
• DEFRA
  (Department For Environment, Food & Rural Affairs)  UK Environmental Statistics.
  
• Neighbourhood Statistics
  Part of the National Statistics service. Figures relating to local authority areas or standard statistical regions are increasingly being made available. Postcode searching is possible too. 
  
• Department of Transport
  Many of the documents on this site are not available in full text on the National Statistics web site. Some of them are available solely on this web site and are replacements for former hard copy publications.
  
• Department of Health
  Comprehensive site of health statistics.
  
• Housing Statistics
  A portal to housing statistics from various sources put together by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Many of the links take you to a home page of an organisation, from which you'll have to do your own search for housing data.
  
• Government Actuaries
  Population projections to 2038.
  
• 2001 Census
  2001 census data for everywhere except Birmingham. Data is being released in stages, so check regularly for updates!
  
• Birmingham Economy
  Figures such as top 100 Birmingham companies, tourism, population by age, ward, gender and ethnicity.
  
• Auto Industry
  UK Motor Industry Statistics.
  
• London Metal Exchange
  Metal prices and data with some historical figures.
  
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
  Accident Statistics. 
  
• Mintel
  Free access only to a list of reports and a contents list which is standard for each report.
  
• Key Note
  Access to executive summaries of their market research reports only.
  
• Broadcasters Audience Research Bureau
  Choose various television viewing figures on a weekly or monthly basis.
  
• National Readership Survey
  Newspaper and magazine readership data.
  
• Radio Joint Audience Research
  Radio audience figures.
  
• Telephone Company Performance Statistics
  Published by OFTEL.
  
• Financial Services
  Site of International Financial Services, London. Lots of statistics relating to   international trade in financial services and the importance of London as an international financial sector.
  
• Marketresearch.com
  Like the vast majority of market research web sites, this doesn't give you free access to full reports. It acts as an online ordering service for thousands of reports from around the world on a wide range of topics from many different publishers. The service offers both full reports or sections of reports. The site gives free access to an abstract of every report. The abstracts will usually be sufficient for you to know if it is the right report for your needs should you want to buy it.
  
• British Retail Consortium
  Quick facts and statistics to do with UK retail sales/trends.
  
• Council of Mortgage Lenders
  Some free statistics.
  
• House Price Index
  Historical and recent information provided by the Nationwide Building Society.
  
• Mindbranch.com
  Like the vast majority of market research web sites, this doesn't give you free access to full reports. It acts as an online ordering service for thousands of reports from around the world on a wide range of topics from many different publishers. The site gives free access to an abstract of every report. The abstracts will usually be sufficient for you to know if it is the right report for your needs should you want to buy it.
  
• OECD
  Trade Statistics. Once in the site, click on the Statistics option at the top of the screen.
  
• Euromonitor
  Free access only to the executive summaries of market research reports, including overseas markets.
  
• World Health Organisation
  Link to the statistical section. Much useful data can be viewed.

Surveys

• MORI
  UK opinion poll results on business issues from MORI.