Hello Ian, I was passed your query above. Although I didn't have an answer, I decided to post it on our Local Economic Assessment community of practice. A reply came through from a Ginny Murphy, Research Manager in Cumbria CC. Ginny says: "ABI (now replaced by BRES) does provide employment data down to ward or LSOA level but you need a special Notice to access it. You can apply for a Notice and access the data via NOMIS. ABI/BRES don't provide the complete picture though as they exclude some agriculture data and all self employment. An alternative commercial source if you've got funds is the Betamodel which brings together data from a variety of sources and gives information on enterprises and emploment at small area level." If you want to explore this further I suggest you join the LEA community of practice or even get in touch with Ginny http://www.communities.idea.gov.uk/c/1108381/forum/thread.do?id=9297285. Hope this helps. Kamal Panchal, LGID.
