Dataset(s):
UK National Accounts, The Blue Book time series
Datasets for each of the chapters in The Blue Book 2024 including the national accounts at a glance, financial and non-financial corporations, households and non-profit institutions serving households and summary supply and use tables.
Provides files to download data as it existed for this dataset on previous dates.
Statistics are most often revised for 1 of 2 reasons:
For certain statistics initial estimates are released with the expectation that these may be revised and updated as further data becomes available.
Revisions may also be made when methods or systems are changed.
These types of planned revisions should not be confused with errors in released statistics, which are genuine mistakes. Such mistakes occur rarely and, when they do happen, corrections are made in a timely manner, announced and clearly explained to users in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (Principle 2, Practice 7).
We have corrected an error in Table 12.8. The values for timber provisioning (FV5G) had been aggregated incorrectly so woodfuel was double counted. Table 12.6 has also been revised due to changes to the data provided by Forest Research for timber provisioning (FU2R).
We have corrected an error in the physical value of air pollution regulating (FV5K) in table 12.8. The previous version incorrectly excluded some physical removals due to errors in the aggregation of geographic areas. Total monetary values (annual and asset) are unaffected.
ONS identified that a publication error caused the annual total change in inventories series (ABMQ) to appear incorrectly within the UK National Accounts, The Blue Book: 2018 publication. This correction affects the 1997 value in table 1.3. This issue only impacts the value in table 1.3 and does not impact any aggregations dependant on the non-seasonally adjusted, chain volume measure inventories figure, GDP included. This has now been amended.
ONS apologises for any inconvenience this may have caused.
The excel table relating to the Financial balance sheet, published on 31 October 2017, incorrectly included data for CDID identifier NGAL HH & NPISH (S.14 + S.15): Foreign currency loans by UK banks. We have obtained data relating to the correct CDID and re-run the table in order to populate the time series dataset. The data are now identifiable on the following tables as: 6.1.11 - NNRI
The time series dataset was also affected by this issue and has since been corrected. There is no impact on any other Blue Book series or any aggregates. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
On 14 December 2017 we informed users that a processing error had been identified impacting historical estimates (pre-1997) of some component series of household final consumption expenditure. On 22nd December 2017 the series below were corrected from 1985 to 1996. None of the changes will impact on total household final consumption expenditure or total gross domestic product.
ADIU 02.2 Tobacco in table 6.2.15
MNC4 02.3 Narcotics in table 6.2.15
MND2 12.2 Prostitution in table 6.2.15
ADJP 06.3 Hospital Services in table 6.2.15
CCHX Final consumption Expenditure in the UK by households resident in the rest of the world in table 6.2.15 and 6.2.13
ABTC Final consumption expenditure outside the UK by UK resident households in table 6.2.15 and 6.2.13
A small error occurred in Blue Book Time Series dataset due to a processing error. We have corrected this error. You can see all previous versions of this data on the previous versions page. We apologise for any inconvenience.
This error effects 2015 annual data only and does not impact any publication tables, charts and commentary shown in the Blue Book publication. The affected series are KKD5, KKD7, KKE5, KKE7, KKE9, KKF3, KKF5, KKF7, KKF9, KKG3, KKG5, KKG7, KKG9, KKH3, KKH5, KKH7, KKH9, KKI3, KKI5, KKI9, KKJ3, KKK3, KKK5, KKK7, KKK9, KKL3, KKL9, KKM3, KKM5, KKM7, KKM9, KKN5, KKN9, KKO3, KKO5, KKO9, KKP3 and associated aggregates within the time series dataset.
