Summary

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.

Publications

• Economic activity and social change in the UK, real-time indicators: 7 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

• System Average Price (SAP) of gas

  Daily data showing System Average Price (SAP) of gas, and rolling seven-day average, traded in Great Britain over the On-the-Day Commodity Market (OCM). These are official statistics in development. Source: National Gas Transmission.

• Online job advert estimates

  Weekly snapshot of online job advert indices covering the UK job market. These are official statistics in development. Source: Adzuna.

• Traffic camera activity

  Daily data showing weekday adjusted 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. These are official statistics in development. Source: Transport for London, Transport for Greater Manchester

• Advanced notification of potential redundancies

  Weekly data showing the number of potential redundancies from Insolvency Service HR1 forms and the number of employers proposing redundancies, Great Britain. These are official statistics in development. Source: HR1.

• Transactions at Pret A Manger

  Weekly data showing transactions from approximately 400 Pret A Manger stores around the UK. These are official statistics in development. Source: Pret a Manger

• UK spending on credit and debit cards

  Daily, weekly and monthly data showing seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted UK spending using debit and credit cards. These are official statistics in development. Source: CHAPS, Bank of England.

• 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.

• Weekly shipping indicators

  Weekly data showing ship visits to and from selected UK ports. These are official statistics in development. Source: exactEarth.

• Sales and jobs in small businesses

  Monthly dataset showing change in sales and jobs recorded by Xero, an online accounting software platform. This dataset is updated on a quarterly basis. These are official statistics in development. Source: Xero.

• Daily UK flights

  Daily data showing UK flight numbers and rolling seven-day average, including flights to, from, and within the UK. These are official statistics in development. Source: EUROCONTROL.

• Value Added Tax (VAT)

  Value Added Tax (VAT) turnover and expenditure diffusion indexes and new VAT reporters using data from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) VAT returns.

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey, estimates of the UK workforce in self-isolation by sector

  Modelled estimates of the proportion of the workforce self-isolating because of coronavirus (COVID-19) by work sector and modelled estimates of the proportion of the working age population (regardless of employment status) self-isolating because of COVID-19 by country.

• Company incorporations, voluntary dissolutions and compulsory dissolutions

  Weekly data showing the number of Companies House incorporations, voluntary dissolutions accepted, and companies placed into compulsory dissolution in the UK. These are official statistics in development. Source: Companies House.

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