National statistics
Pocket databank: list of sources
Updated 27 June 2018
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1. UK data
| Data | Series | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inflation and price indices | CPI Inflation | ONS | |
| RPI inflation | ONS | ||
| CPIH inflation | ONS | ||
|
Producer input price inflation (Index – see ONS publication tables for percentage changes) |
ONS | ||
|
Producer output price inflation (Index – see ONS publication tables for percentage changes) |
ONS | ||
| GDP deflator Quarterly Yearly |
ONS | ||
| Output |
Manufacturing (Index – see ONS publication tables for percentage changes) |
ONS | |
| Construction | ONS | ||
| Services | ONS | ||
| GDP |
Household consumption (See ONS publication tables for percentage changes) |
ONS | |
| NPISH consumption | ONS | ||
| Government spending | ONS | ||
| Gross Fixed Capital Formation | ONS | ||
| Changes in inventories | ONS | ||
| Exports | ONS | ||
| Imports | ONS | ||
| Real GDP | ONS | ||
| Investment | Whole economy Quarter-on-quarter growth Quarter-on-same quarter of previous year growth |
ONS | |
| Business Quarter-on-quarter growth Quarter-on-same quarter of previous year growth |
ONS | ||
| Dwellings Public sector: Quarter-on-quarter growth Quarter-on-same quarter of previous year growth Private sector: Quarter-on-quarter growth Quarter-on-same quarter of previous year growth |
ONS | ||
| Government Quarter-on-quarter growth Quarter-on-same quarter of previous year growth |
ONS | ||
| Productivity | Whole economy Index % change on a year earlier |
ONS | |
| Manufacturing Index % change on a year earlier |
ONS | ||
| Services Index % change on a year earlier |
ONS | ||
| Consumer Indicators | Retail sales Index % change on a year earlier |
ONS | |
| Real household disposable income per head | ONS | ||
| Household saving ratio | ONS | ||
| Consumer confidence | GfK | ||
| New car registrations | SMMT | ||
|
Consumer credit growth (code B4TC) |
Bank of England | ||
| Housing indicators |
Mortgage approvals (code VTVX) |
Bank of England | |
|
Private sector housing starts (Table 208 for yearly figures, table 222 for quarterly seasonally adjusted figures for England) |
DCLG | ||
|
Official house price index (View ‘data downloads’ for the latest month to view historical series) |
ONS/HM Land Registry | ||
| Nationwide house prices | Nationwide | ||
| Halifax house prices | Halifax | ||
| Property transactions | HMRC | ||
| Business surveys | CBI Industrial Trends Survey | CBI | |
| BCC Quarterly Economic Survey | BCC | ||
| Unemployment | Unemployment rate | ONS | |
| Unemployment level | ONS | ||
| Claimant count rate | ONS | ||
| Claimant count level | ONS | ||
| Youth unemployment (aged 18-24, unemployed for 6+ months) Over 6 and up to 12 months + Over 12 Months |
ONS | ||
| Long term unemployment (aged 25+, unemployed for 12+ months) 25-49 yrs + 50+ yrs |
ONS | ||
| Long term unemployment (aged 25+, unemployed for 24+ months) 25-49 yrs + 50+ yrs |
ONS | ||
| Employment | Employment rate | ONS | |
| Employment level | ONS | ||
| Earnings | Total pay growth | ONS | |
| Private sector pay growth | ONS | ||
| Public sector pay growth | ONS | ||
| Regular pay growth (excludes bonuses) | ONS | ||
| Real total pay growth | ONS | ||
| Balance of payments | Trade in goods balance | ONS | |
| Trade in services balance | ONS | ||
| Total trade balance | ONS | ||
| Primary income balance | ONS | ||
| Secondary income balance | ONS | ||
| Current account balance | ONS | ||
| Capital account balance | ONS | ||
| UK trade in goods (volumes) |
Total exports (Index – see ONS publication tables for percentage changes) |
ONS | |
| Total imports | ONS | ||
| Exports to EU countries | ONS | ||
| Imports from EU countries | ONS | ||
| Exports to non-EU countries | ONS | ||
| Imports from non-EU countries | ONS | ||
| Public sector finances | Public sector net borrowing | ONS | |
| Public sector current budget deficit | ONS | ||
| Public sector net debt | ONS | ||
| Public sector net cash requirement | ONS | ||
| Public sector total managed expenditure | ONS | ||
| Public sector total current receipts | ONS | ||
| Maastricht Treaty net borrowing | ONS | ||
| Maastricht Treaty debt | ONS | ||
| Base interest rates | UK | Bank of England | |
| US | Federal Reserve | ||
| Eurozone | ECB | ||
| Exchange rates |
Sterling Exchange Rate Index (code XUDLBK67) |
Bank of England | |
|
£/$ (code XUDLUSS) |
Bank of England | ||
|
£/€ (code XUDLERS) |
Bank of England | ||
| UK interest rates |
Long term interest rate (10-year government bond yields) (code IUAAMNPY for annual series, IUMAMNPY for monthly series) |
Bank of England | |
|
Mortgage rate (code IUMTLMV) |
Bank of England | ||
|
Sterling LIBOR (select GBP and the date you require from the drop-down menu) |
ICE | ||
| UK monetary indicators & equities |
M4 (code VQJW) |
Bank of England | |
|
M4 lending (code LPMVWVP) |
Bank of England | ||
|
FTSE 100 (The spreadsheet ‘Historic Closing Values’ contains historical data, the chart on the right contains the most up to date values) |
London Stock Exchange |