Company Insolvencies by Industry: methodology

What this metric measures

Number of companies entering external administration or having a controller appointed each month, by industry. The headline line is the monthly total across all industries; choose an industry to see where distress is concentrated.

Why it matters: The annual insolvency total says how many businesses failed, not where or when. Monthly figures by industry show whether distress is concentrated in sectors such as construction or hospitality and how it builds over time. Counts are not adjusted for the size of each industry.

Source & provenance

Publisher

ASIC Insolvency Statistics Series 1, Table 1.2 (companies entering external administration, by industry, monthly from July 2021). ASIC reports about two weeks in arrears, so a month appears once it ended at least two weeks before ASIC's release. Neutral because the annual total (Company Insolvencies) is already scored.

Update frequency

monthly

Licence

CC BY 4.0

How the score is computed

The score is a 0–100 normalisation of the latest observation, compared to a baseline window. The traffic-light rating (RAG) reflects both the absolute level and the recent trend.

Direction

Context-dependent

Trend window

24 months

Baseline

Last 10 years

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