Release

National Accounts articles: Revisions to gross domestic product in Blue Book 2016

Release date: 23 January 2017 9:30am

Summary

An article which looks in detail at Blue Book 2016 growth rate revisions and provides an update of the metrics used to test revisions.

Publications

Data

  • Revisions to gross domestic product in Blue Book 2016: Tables and annexes

    Presentation of BB2016 revisions, current price; revisions to GDP growth between the first and third estimate; Sources used in compiling estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP); GDP current price and chained volume measure annual growth by Blue Book and quarter-on-quarter GDP revisions for balanced years.

Contact details

Name

Matthew Hughes

Email

gdp@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 455827

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest