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National Accounts methodology and articles 2011-present

2013

Title	Author	Date of release
Capital Stock, Capital Consumption - Estimation improvement for the consumption of fixed capital May 2013 (119.9 Kb Pdf)	Wesley Harris	3 May 2013
Continuous Improvement of Gross Domestic Product: Sources, Methods and Communication - 24 April 2013	Jacqui Jones and Graeme Walker	24 April 2013
GDP continuous improvement: summary of improvements to the estimation of changes in inventories in the UK National Accounts (200.8 Kb Pdf)	Louisa Nolan	27 March 2013
GDP continuous improvement: summary of improvements to the estimation of gross fixed capital formation in the UK National Accounts (234.4 Kb Pdf)	Louisa Nolan	27 March 2013
Understanding and Interpreting the Quarter Four 2012 Gross Domestic Product Preliminary Estimate	Darren Morgan	25 January 2013

2012

Title	Author	Date of release
Content of Blue Book 2013 (62.7 Kb Pdf)	Angie Francis and Catherine Marks	30 November 2012
Statistical Special Events in Quarter Three 2012 - the Olympics & Paralympics (229 Kb Pdf)	Darren Morgan and Michael Hardie	25 October 2012
Updated Analysis of Revisions to Quarterly GDP (206.7 Kb Pdf)	Andrew Walton and Gary Brown, ONS	16 October 2012
Gross National Inventory - Reservations	ONS	19 September 2012
UK National Accounts - a short guide (93.6 Kb Pdf)	Pete Lee, ONS	1 August 2012
Balancing the Three Approaches to Measuring Gross Domestic Product, 2012	Pete Lee, ONS	31 July 2012
Measuring the impact of the Olympics on the National Accounts	ONS	13 July 2012
Impact of changes in the National Accounts and economic commentary for 2012 quarter 1 (213 Kb Pdf)	Malindi Myers, Pete Lee and Darren Morgan, ONS	28 June 2012
Household Final Consumption Estimates (HHFCE) Work Programme	ONS	28 June 2012
Improvements to Blue Book 2012: Measurement of insurance services	ONS	26 June 2012
Blue Book 2012: Changes to data series	ONS	7 June 2012
New insurance data and methods 1997-2008 (97.8 Kb Pdf)	Abbe Williams, Stephanie Duff and Daniel Wisniewski, ONS	30 May 2012
Why is GDP revised? (269.9 Kb Pdf)	Graeme Walker, Andrew Walton and Tiffany Georghiades, ONS	30 May 2012
Blue Book 2012: Improvements to the measurement of insurance services	Abbe Williams, Stephanie Duff and Daniel Wisniewski, ONS	30 April 2012
Developing a policy on Special Events (209.3 Kb Pdf)	Paul Smith, ONS	25 April 2012
Content of Blue Book 2012	ONS	30 March 2012
Gross capital formation estimates - availability of data from the GCF systems	Stuart Deneen, ONS	23 February 2012

2011

Title	Author	Date of release
Compiling estimates of state pension obligations for the National Accounts (110.3 Kb Pdf)	Sarah Levy, ONS	2 December 2011
Blue Book 2011: Reclassification of the UK Supply and Use Tables (201.7 Kb Pdf)	Steve Drew and Marianthi Dunn, ONS	1 November 2011
Improving the coverage of derivatives data in the National Accounts and Balance of Payments (51.5 Kb Pdf)	Stephanie Duff, ONS	25 October 2011
Impact of changes in the National Accounts and Economic Commentary for 2011 quarter 2 (81.1 Kb Pdf)	Peter Patterson, Pete Lee and Malindi Myers, ONS	5 October 2011
Blue Book 2011: Improvements to Household Expenditure Estimates, Q2 2011	Peter Gittins and Gareth Clancy, ONS	5 October 2011
Historic National Accounts data proposals for Blue Book 2011 (87 Kb Pdf)	Glenn Everett, ONS	5 October 2011
Methods changes in the 2011 Blue Book (46.8 Kb Pdf)	Glenn Everett, ONS	29 September 2011
The relationship between Gross Value Added (GVA) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP)	ONS	30 August 2011
GDP methodology on the treatment of insurance claims in the National Accounts	ONS	30 August 2011
Deflation improvements in the UK National Accounts (176.8 Kb Pdf)	Steve Drew, ONS	5 August 2011
Pensions in the National Accounts - compiling a complete picture of UK pensions including unfunded pensions for public sector employees	Sarah Levy, ONS	3 August 2011
The Impact of the Recession on Household Income, Expenditure and Saving (41 Kb Pdf)	ONS	22 June 2011
Comparing the Perpetual Inventory Method and the Whole of Government Accounts for depreciation (53.7 Kb Pdf)	Craig H. McLaren and Bella Saunders, ONS Carmel Zammit, HMT	21 June 2011
Analysis of Revisions to Quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (47.2 Kb Pdf)	Pete Lee, ONS	29 April 2011
Content of Blue Book 2011 (39.8 Kb Pdf)	ONS	25 March 2011

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