Data sources in the product
This page explains how sources appear in Decised and defines acronyms. The full public register with publisher URLs, licences and retrieval notes lives on UK business data sources.
Acronyms used in Decised
- ONS — Office for National Statistics. The UK’s national statistical institute; publishes inflation, labour market, GDP, and business demography series.
- IDBR — Inter-Departmental Business Register. The ONS business register that underpins official openings and closures (activity) statistics.
- SIC — Standard Industrial Classification. The UK coding system for industry sectors (for example cafes vs retail).
- LAD — Local Authority District. The geography used for many local counts and place comparisons.
- Nomis — The ONS service for official labour market and business-count statistics (including UK Business Counts by local authority).
- OSM — OpenStreetMap. Community-mapped venues and places; descriptive map context only, not a scored input.
- BoE — Bank of England. Source of Bank Rate history used in macro context.
- GDP — Gross Domestic Product. A UK macro growth series shown as observed context.
Local market (Nomis)
UK Business Counts and population by local authority (LAD). Vintage years are shown on the report. Same-industry counts use Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) sections where available.
Macro series
- Bank of England (BoE) Bank Rate history
- Office for National Statistics (ONS) inflation, unemployment, and gross domestic product (GDP) growth series
- Optional local business activity series where published
ONS business demography
Observed openings and closures rates from a versioned Office for National Statistics (ONS) bulletin extract. These are Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) activity aggregates — not a plan success probability and not Companies House register survival.
Place context (descriptive only)
- police.uk — recorded street-level offences in the focus radius. May fall back to a narrower extract if a large polygon is refused.
- Local news — headlines and investment-related signals for the area.
- OpenStreetMap (OSM / Overpass) — nearby venues as community-mapped presence, not Nomis counts.
Your uploads
Optional CSV of monthly revenue and costs. Validated uploads personalise Business idea reports for you only; they are not shared as market benchmarks.