Over four million records of businesses, education, and leisure services across Britain. The dataset is sourced and quality-checked from more than 100 leading listing suppliers and is updated four times a year. It is provided by the Government Digital Service via the eu_open_data platform.
Use Cases
- Build business search and recommendation engines based on the comprehensive directory of services.
- Conduct market analysis and site selection based on the location-based directory of businesses.
- Enrich address data and perform geocoding based on the postcode and address information.
- Analyze the distribution of education and leisure services across regions based on the categorized listings.
Strengths
- Contains over four million records, providing a large-scale directory.
- Sourced from more than 100 leading suppliers, suggesting broad coverage.
- Updated quarterly, indicating a commitment to data freshness.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is a stated estimate; the exact number of downloadable records is unknown.
- Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the listing suppliers used.
Provenance
- Source
- Government Digital Service
- Collection Method
- Aggregated and quality-checked from more than 100 leading listing suppliers.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Updated four times a year.
- Geography
- Britain