Thanks for all the good feedback from those of you, both in social enterprises and government, who have read our paper on the 'Approaches to measuring social enterprise'. Our aim is to shed light on what is being reported, and it is interesting that different people read the findings in different ways. Measuring social enterprise is always going to be difficult so, in some ways, each data source may be under estimating the scale of a particular type of social enterprise.
Some may find the results surprising and some might find they challenge their previous ideas. We hope our work will encourage the social enterprise sector and others to discuss what they mean by social enterprise and to be more precise when they use any figures. Our working paper is just that - work in progress - so we welcome your views on our findings.