Release

Impact of methods changes to the national accounts and sector and financial accounts: Jan to Mar 1997 to Jan to Mar 2016

Release date: 30 June 2016 9:30am

Summary

A series of articles have been published over the last few months describing the improvements being made to national accounts. This article summarises the effects of methodological, classification and other changes implemented in the Quarterly national accounts for the period 1997 to the first quarter of 2016. This dataset is consistent with the UK national accounts (The Blue Book): 2016, to be published on 29 July 2016.

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Contact details

Name

Matthew Hughes

Email

gdp@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 455827

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