1. National Accounts Metadata
Neil Currie
GDP Coordination
Office for National Statistics
26/06/2017

2. National Accounts Page and articles
Here we release articles on methodological and data source changes to National Accounts

3. A Short Guide to National Accounts
Alongside details of changes we publish summary articles so users can understand and interpret our data.
A short guide to national accounts:
Framework for National accounts
Measures of GDP
Measure of GNI
Sector Accounts
Supply Use Tables
Price/volume measures terminology
BOP
Publications
Regional and Satellite accounts
Pdf file, 2015 version
2011 version also available on website:

4. Economic Theme Days
ONS has moved to publishing similar releases together on theme days
Monthly economic commentary is published alongside GDP releases and other related releases such as the Index of Services
Commentary is broad and improves coherence amongst related bulletins
GDP and other bulletins released on coherent theme days

5. GDP Bulletin Recently we streamlined releases across ONS
Bulletins include figures and charts along with regular and ad-hoc analysis
Key quality information remains in bulletins but static information is linked to and made available elsewhere on the website
Information is presented on data content; on where modelling has been used; and users are warned where figures should be treated with caution
Alongside each release, explorable datasets are made available
Snapshots of our releases and data over time are also available
Prelim:
Second Estimate:
QNA:

6. Quality and Methodology Within GDP Releases
Preliminary Estimate:
Second Estimate:
Quarterly National Accounts:

7. GDP Quality Methodology Information Paper
Static information in QMI documents linked to from bulletins
QMI regularly reviewed and updated

8. Revisions
Revisions to GDP are necessary as part of the trade off between timeliness and accuracy
In ONS National Accounts we communicate revisions to our users alongside regular releases
We don’t publish standard errors or confidence intervals around our GDP estimates since they are not based solely on sample surveys

10. GDP Output Source Catalogue
A document containing information on data sources for GDP Output, broken down by industry for current price, volume and deflators
In the process of compiling a similar catalogue for Income and Expenditure

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