Official statistics announcement

Alternative measures of UK households' income and saving: July to September 2018

This article describes the impact of removing imputed transactions to construct measures of real households' disposable income and the saving ratio to better represent the economic experience of households.

Statistics release cancelled

We have received ever growing interest in the Alternative Measures of Households Income and Saving experimental statistics since their launch in August 2015. Following requests to provide users with earlier access to the data and analysis within this experimental article, we will be incorporating the alternative measures of real households disposable income and saving ratio into the Quarterly Sector Accounts Statistical Bulletin from the December 21 2018 release. In effect, the underlying data will be moved into the Households chapter (Chapter 6) of the United Kingdom Economic Accounts and the accompanying analysis will move to the Quarterly Sector Accounts Statistical Bulletin, both released on the same day. Previously, the alternative measures of real households disposable income and saving ratio were released a week later. We hope users find this more timely analysis of Households’ financial situation useful, and we continue to welcome feedback.