Release:Economic activity and social change in the UK, real-time indicators: 14 April 2022

Publications

• Economic activity and social change in the UK, real-time indicators: 14 April 2022

  Early experimental data and analysis on economic activity and social change in the UK. These faster indicators are created using rapid response surveys, novel data sources, and experimental methods.

Data

• Weekly shipping indicators

  Experimental weekly and daily ship visits dataset covering UK ports.

• System Average Price (SAP) of gas

  Daily and rolling average System Average Price (SAP) of gas traded in Great Britain over the On-the-Day Commodity Market (OCM).

• Online job advert estimates

  Experimental job advert indices covering the UK job market.

• Traffic camera activity

  Busyness indices using traffic camera data to monitor flows of cars, pedestrians, cyclists, buses and commercial vehicles for selected cities and regions of the UK. Experimental Statistics.

• Advanced notification of potential redundancies

  Number of potential redundancies from Insolvency Service HR1 forms and number of employers proposing redundancies, Great Britain.

• Daily UK flights

  Experimental daily UK flight numbers and rolling seven-day average, including flights to, from, and within the UK.

• Transactions at Pret A Manger

  Weekly transactional data from approximately 400 Pret A Manger stores around the UK.

• UK spending on credit and debit cards

  These data series are experimental real-time indicators for monitoring UK spending using debit and credit cards. They track the daily CHAPS payments made by credit and debit card payment processors to around 100 major UK retail corporates, based on data supplied by the Bank of England.

• Company incorporations, voluntary dissolutions and compulsory dissolutions

  The number of Companies House incorporations and voluntary dissolutions accepted, and companies placed into compulsory dissolution: weekly dataset.

• Visits to location types using Google Mobility

  Changes in the volume of visits to six different location types compared with a pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) baseline, using Google Mobility data.