Business investment in the UK, provisional: Jan to Mar 2017

Summary

Investment trends by businesses, contains capital expenditure estimates at current prices, constant prices and seasonally adjusted.

Publications

Business investment in the UK: January to March 2017 provisional results

Estimates of short-term indicators of investment in non-financial assets; business investment and asset and sector breakdowns of total gross fixed capital formation.
A short guide to gross fixed capital formation and business investment

This article provides a useful background of how to interpret, compare and analyse statistics regarding gross fixed capital formation and business investment.

Data

Business investment – revisions triangles

Summary of revisions to levels and growth rates of business investment, by quarter, chained volume measures, seasonally adjusted, UK.
Business investment real-time database

Real-time database to accompany revision triangles, by quarter, chained volume measures, seasonally adjusted, UK.
Gross fixed capital formation – by sector and asset

Sector and asset breakdowns of gross fixed capital formation (GFCF), including business investment and revisions.
Business investment time series

Detailed breakdown of business investment by industry and asset, in current prices, chained volume measures, non-seasonally adjusted and seasonally adjusted.

Contact details

Name

Alison McCrae

Email

gcf@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 455250

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

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