Summary of request
A number of exhaustiveness adjustments are applied in the estimation of UK annual current price GDP to account for economic activity that is not or cannot be measured directly via surveys and administrative sources. The adjustments are allocated to one of seven categories defined in Eurostat’s tabular approach to exhaustiveness. This ensures compliance with the European Union Gross National Income (GNI) regulation, and that production of GDP/GNI estimates in the UK conform to internationally established best practice. Estimates of fraud and evasion in this table were supplied in response to a House of Lords statistical question and have been produced by reference to data and information provided to Eurostat under the GNI regulation.
Contact
For further information please contact GNI.coordination@ons.gov.uk.