Methodology related to national accounts

  • Methodology changes in the UK Tourism Satellite Account (UK-TSA): 2020

    Methodology | Released on 24 February 2023

    An overview of challenges faced and methods used to produce the UK Tourism Satellite Account: 2020.

    Keywords: Expenditure, COVID-19, inbound, outbound

  • Capital stocks and fixed capital consumption QMI

    Methodology | Released on 2 February 2023

    Quality and methodology information for the annual estimates of the value and types of non-financial assets used in the production of goods or services within the UK economy and their loss in value over time. This page has been superseded.

    Keywords: methodology, capital stocks, capital consumption, QMI, non-financial assets

  • Capital stocks and fixed capital consumption QMI

    Methodology | Released on 31 January 2023

    Quality and methodology information for the capital stocks and fixed capital consumption release published twice a year, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used, and data uses and users.

    Keywords: methodology, capital stocks, capital consumption, non-financial assets, QMI

  • Balance of payments QMI

    Methodology | Released on 31 October 2022

    Quality and methodology information (QMI) for Balance of Payments (BoP) statistics, detailing the strengths and limitations of the data, methods used, and data uses and users.

    Keywords: methodology, economy, foreign, rest of the world

  • User guide to consumer trends

    Methodology | Released on 10 October 2022

    Overview of the Consumer trends, UK bulletin, which presents comprehensive estimates of household final consumption expenditure, constructed to conform to the European System of Accounts 2010 and the classification of individual consumption by purpose.

    Keywords: household spending, personal expenditure, spending per head, COICOP, HHFCE, imputed rental

  • Capital stocks user guide, UK

    Methodology | Released on 15 July 2022

    Supporting information for capital stocks and consumption of fixed capital statistics, which present annual values for the UK.

    Keywords: capital consumption, non-financial assets, produced assets, perpetual inventory method

  • Insurance and pensions methods changes: 1997 to 2020

    Methodology | Released on 20 June 2022

    Improvements in calculating estimates for the insurance companies and pension funds subsector. Changes to the financial and non-financial accounts resulting from methods and data source changes.

    Keywords: BB22, BlueBook2022, national accounts, insurance, pensions

  • Financial services sector methods changes: 1997 to 2019

    Methodology | Released on 28 June 2021

    Improvements in calculating financial services estimates for Other Financial Institutions by basing the calculation of output and intermediate consumption of Other Financial Institutions (in NACE 64.2 to 64.9), and financial auxiliaries (in NACE 66) on the industry-specific data, and applying output valuation for the financial services that these units provide.

    Keywords: bb21, national accounts, blue book 2021, financial sector, FSS

  • UK Trade QMI

    Methodology | Released on 12 May 2021

    UK trade QMI
  • Double deflation methods and deflator improvements to UK National Accounts: Blue Book 2021

    Methodology | Released on 10 May 2021

    Methodology for implementing double deflation including the method for an improved telecommunication services deflator.

    Keywords: GVA, double-deflation, GDP