08 October 2021

As part of Blue Book 2021, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) faced some challenges in reconciling the industry-level gross value added (GVA) quarterly trends to the new annual data. This is particularly pronounced in the production industries. See information in the gross domestic product (GDP) low level aggregates dataset for more information. This has resulted in some volatility in the back series of our productivity estimates for some industries.

09 December 2022

This timeseries was updated late due to processing error during the publication process.

14 August 2024

A minor error has been identified in the Unit labour cost and unit wage cost (USCT) time series containing the Annual unit wage costs (UWCs) back series index (2019 equals 100). The error affects the time series with the CDIDs DIX4, DJ4I and DJ4J, published on 14 May 2024. This happened because of an incorrect calculation in the system used to produce the estimates. No other data are affected, and the error has been corrected in our August release. Please contact productivity@ons.gov.uk for more information. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.