Within a matter of minutes you can generate and access tables, charts and maps of important economic indicators that will give you a full understanding of the business, employment and household characteristics of any chosen area. You can also compare your profile with any other area in the UK, inclusive of Region, County or Local Authority.

This intuitive and simple to use web platform is powered using commercial data sets including

• Experian's National Business Database
• BlueSheep's Business Universe
• Royal Mail's Business Changes File
• Eurodirect's Cameo Household Geo-demographics
• ONS Census 2001 and Nomis

All of the data and indicators are referenced and supported by metadata, and are refreshed every 3 months. We constantly update and improve our services with regular product and data development cycles. The profiling tool can take away the time, cost and effort to source, manipulate, analyse and present data. Giving you the necessary resources required for you to understand your local economy and perform local area assessments. Apart from helping to inform strategy the profiling tool can be used to support inward investment and business development.

Market Measures Online Profiling is available to purchase either on a subscription basis or as a deployed service specific to your local authority.