{
 "dataset": "sic-nec-gap-datacity",
 "title": "UK companies under a \"not elsewhere classified\" SIC code, The Data City's figures",
 "publisher": "Established Finance",
 "page": "https://establishedfinance.co.uk/data-downloads/#sic-nec-gap-datacity",
 "version": "1.0",
 "source": {
  "name": "The Data City, \"Companies left in the dark by SIC: uncovering the UK's hidden economy\"",
  "url": "https://thedatacity.com/blog/companies-left-in-the-dark-by-sic-uncovering-the-uks-hidden-economy/",
  "published": "Published 14 December 2022, last modified 24 May 2023 (the page's own metadata)",
  "retrieved": "2026-09-24"
 },
 "licence": {
  "text": "The Data City's figures, quoted with attribution. They are not ours to relicense; cite The Data City.",
  "url": "https://thedatacity.com/blog/companies-left-in-the-dark-by-sic-uncovering-the-uks-hidden-economy/"
 },
 "columns": [
  {
   "name": "measure",
   "description": "What is counted"
  },
  {
   "name": "value",
   "description": "The figure as published"
  },
  {
   "name": "approximate",
   "description": "true where the source says 'around'"
  },
  {
   "name": "source_wording",
   "description": "The source's own words for the figure"
  }
 ],
 "notes": [
  "The 740,000 are part of the 886,106, not in addition to them.",
  "The Data City does not give the exact snapshot date its count was made from. For our own quarterly counts from Companies House snapshots, with file hashes, use the SIC n.e.c. tracker downloads."
 ],
 "rows": [
  {
   "measure": "nec_codes",
   "value": 38,
   "approximate": false,
   "source_wording": "38 'Not Elsewhere Classified' (or n.e.c.) codes used across the 21 sections of the SIC database"
  },
  {
   "measure": "companies_with_any_nec_code",
   "value": 886106,
   "approximate": false,
   "source_wording": "886,106 distinct companies (one in every five in the UK) that are currently classified using one"
  },
  {
   "measure": "companies_with_only_nec_codes",
   "value": 740000,
   "approximate": true,
   "source_wording": "around 740,000 companies in the UK that are 'Hidden'. These are companies that are only classified under n.e.c. codes"
  }
 ]
}