Small and Micro FBO Tracking Survey Wave 4 Technical Report

FSA Research and EvidenceDue to the COVID-19 pandemic, the survey was not carried out in 2020.Since then, the FBO tracker has become biennial.1 2. Sampling 2. Sampling Businesses were eligible for the research if they were small and micro FBOs (i.e., less than 50 employees) operating in England, Northern Ireland, or Wales and were in sectors in-scope for the research (using the UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)). 2 IFF Research obtained information on the underlying population of businesses eligible for the Tracker in terms of sector and size from the Office of National Statistics Interdepartmental Business Register (IDBR) sourced from NOMIS (UK Business Counts) on 26 July 2023.Once eligible business population counts had been obtained, the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) ratings in England, Northern Ireland and Wales were applied to derive the number of eligible business in rating groupings.This information was obtained from the weighting profile applied in wave 3 of the Tracker. 3In total, there were 251,260 businesses deemed eligible for the research.230,090 were in England, 7,405 were in Northern Ireland and 13,765 were in Wales.