Corrections
18 March 2020
As announced on 9 August 2019, an error occurred in the Living Cost and Food (LCF) Survey which was found to impact the Family spending in the UK: April 2017 to March 2018 datasets.
This affected, to a small degree, most estimates of average expenditure. The overall impact was that average weekly household expenditure in the UK was underestimated by around 0.5%, while the interpretation of the statistics remained the same.
The error was due to the imputation of data collected through a diary being incorrect for three quarters of the financial year in the LCF. The datasets have now been corrected. We apologise for any inconvenience. Please contact carla.kidd@ons.gov.uk for more information.
Notices
26 January 2018
The data for the financial year ending (FYE) 2017 was not included when the Family Spending bulletin for the period was published on 18 January 2018, the data for FYE 2016 was duplicated in error.
The data for FYE 2017 is now available, we apologise for any inconvenience caused.
