Set ddata UK gross value added (GVA) and productivity estimates for other geographies
About this Dataset
GVA estimates for middle layer super output areas, travel to work areas (TTWA), towns and cities, integrated care board and health board areas, parliamentary and devolved government constituencies, highlands and islands area offices, and bespoke areas. Productivity estimates are for TTWA, and towns and cities. These are official statistics in development.Edition in the dataset
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We have produced granular gross value added (GVA) data for Lower-layer Super Output Area (LSOA, in England and Wales), Data Zone (DZ, in Scotland) and Super Output Area (SOA, in Northern Ireland) levels, which we call “building blocks”. These can be aggregated to build larger geographical areas for analysis and comparison and are consistent with our Regional economic activity by gross domestic product, UK release. This dataset contains aggregate estimates of GVA constructed from those building blocks.
We have included selected bespoke areas used in development of these data, to illustrate the flexibility of the building block method. We have also provided labour productivity estimates (GVA per job filled) for towns, cities, and travel to work areas that are consistent with our Regional and subregional labour productivity, UK bulletin.
In some cases, it has not been possible to perfectly match the boundaries of the area required. A “best fit” approach has been used to aggregate all the building blocks whose centroid lies within the target area.
For larger areas, the small inaccuracies balance out, leaving results that are mostly reliable. For smaller aggregate areas, such as wards, these approximations can result in significant GVA activity being assigned to the wrong ward. Because the results for wards are of low quality across the UK, we have not included them in this dataset.