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      Company births and deaths

      Our active companies are those on Companies House with a status of 'Active' or 'Active - Proposal to Strike off'

      Since adding company births and deaths, we need to be clear as to what we're presenting with our active companies. Our data is updated monthly via Companies House. Each company has a 'Status' field. Our active companies are those where their status contains the word 'active'. The two statuses which are active are:

      • 'Active'
      • 'Active - Proposal to Strike off'

      Companies which are struck off from the register are considered non-active (dead).

      Our implementation is different from the ONS' definition in their business demography analysis. Their definition is as follows: 

      "Being active means that the business had either turnover or employment at any time during the reference year."

      We currently track companies back to 2015.