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Profitability of small and medium enterprises (SME) in the construction sector in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2014 to 2018*

Characteristic	Made a profit	Broke even	Made a loss	Didn't know/refused to say
2014	68%	13%	11%	8%
2015	74%	12%	8%	6%
2016	75%	12%	7%	6%
2017	79%	10%	3%	6%
2018	74%	10%	7%	10%

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Release date

September 2018

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

July 2014 to June 2018

Number of respondents

4,500 respondents

Special properties

SME

Method of interview

Face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews

Supplementary notes

* Data always refers to the 2nd quarter of each year.

In order to qualify for interview, SMEs had to meet the following criteria in addition to the quotas by size, sector and region:
Not 50%+ owned by another company;
Not run as a social enterprise or as a not for profit organisation;
Turnover of less than £25m

The respondent was the person in charge of managing the business’s finances. Data was collected via interview.
Previous annual sample sizes: 1,811 (2014), 1,815 (2015). Sample sizes since 2016 was 4,500.

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This statistic displays the profitability of small and medium enterprises (SME) in the construction sector in the United Kingdom (UK) in the second quarter of the years between 2014 and 2018. The year with the highest share of SMEs that made a profit was 2017, at 79 percent. In the following year this share declined to 74 percent and the share of SMEs not knowing or refusing comment was the highest throughout the five years recorded.