Meet the team
The group of experts who develop and manage the CBI's business surveys
Jonathan Wood, head of group
Jonathan is responsible for the operation and technical and business development of the CBI's business surveys. Jonathan manages a team of three full-time staff and has over 28 years experience in the field of business survey development and management. Jonathan has attended the DGii ECFIN meetings at the European Commission since 1984 and has worked closely with the EU/OECD on data harmonisation and survey methodology issues. He also has responsibility for the sub-contract survey processing and programming work completed on behalf of the European Commission. Jonathan has been instrumental in the origination and ongoing development of its surveys of distributive retail and wholesale/motor trade (1983), financial services (1989) and the service sector (1998 UK and 2002 EU) as well as the long-running CBI Regional Trends Survey (1990). Jonathan also provides key consultative survey advice to CBI member companies, other employers' organisations and key CBI policy staff; most recently assisting in the formulation and operation of the CBI member-based online Access to Finance Survey to examine the current credit conditions for companies. Jonathan is a member of the Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys (CIRET), which is based at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute in Zurich. Click here for the link to Ciret: http://ciret.dev.ethz.ch/
Nicola Grimwood, survey coordinator
Nicola has worked at the CBI since May 2000 and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the CBI business surveys and directly for their efficient field work, processing and data distribution to UK stakeholders and the European Commission. Nicola has extensive experience of data processing techniques, postal and online survey methodology, contingency management, data testing and analysis. Nicola has first-line responsibility for all main periodicity, frequency, non-response issues across the entire portfolio of CBI Business surveys. Nicola has worked on all the CBI surveys and has been responsible both ensuring their consistent accuracy and risk management activity and for team development activity. Nicola works closely with the CBI's chosen IT and statistical sub-contractors to ensure the effective and accurate development of new survey question requirements on the CBI survey system and other developmental statistics-related issues. Nicola has been instrumental in scoping, developing and using a new micro-data function which has provided exceptional new perspectives and opportunities for the understanding and use of our business survey data, not least in enacting the recent NACE Rev: 2 and SIC 2007 projects on behalf of the European Commission and CBI national requirements. Nicola is also responsible for CBI data supply to the Bank of England, H.M.Treasury and data vendor organisations in the UK and across the world.
Rebecca Wong, survey support assistant
Rebecca Wong joined the CBI Survey Management Group in May 2011 having worked in the public sector for the NHS, where she gained significant experience of handling large amounts of sensitive data. Rebecca is responsible for enacting confidential data scrutiny and data entry across our portfolio of surveys on a monthly basis. Additionally, Rebecca conducts regular corporate research across the entire spectrum of private sector activity to develop and maintain the representative nature of our survey samples. Rebecca has experience of using a wide variety of industry research sources and provides project and general research support to the team.
Christopher Taylor, survey officer
Christopher is a new arrival to the CBI Survey Management Group, joining in May 2010. He brings with him extensive experience in data processing, data entry, sampling, recruitment and corporate research. Christopher has a background in financial administration and client interaction and management and had a major involvement in developing a financial tracking and data tracking system for the UK's largest rail services provider. Christopher is working on all the CBI business surveys and in particular on detailed non-response activity and corporate research to enrich the survey samples that we have developed. Christopher is responsible for sourcing significant companies for the retail and service sector survey in particular based upon their turnover and employment measures and has developed special tools to monitor response and non-response and the quality of company that enters the survey frames. Christopher uses the very latest publically available company database recruitment sources to enrich our samples.
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