Early experimental data and analysis on economic activity and social change in the UK. These real-time indicators are created using rapid response surveys, novel data sources and experimental methods.
Publications
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Economic activity and social change in the UK, real-time indicators: 4 August 2022
Early experimental data and analysis on economic activity and social change in the UK. These real-time indicators are created using rapid response surveys, novel data sources and experimental methods.
Data
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Heathrow flight passenger data
Total monthly number of passengers arriving to and departing from Heathrow Airport, including both international and domestic flights.
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System Average Price (SAP) of gas
Daily and rolling average System Average Price (SAP) of gas traded in Great Britain over the On-the-Day Commodity Market (OCM).
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Online job advert estimates
Experimental job advert indices covering the UK job market.
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Traffic camera activity
Busyness indices using traffic camera data to monitor flows of cars, pedestrians, cyclists, buses and commercial vehicles for selected cities and regions of the UK. Experimental Statistics.
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Advanced notification of potential redundancies
Number of potential redundancies from Insolvency Service HR1 forms and number of employers proposing redundancies, Great Britain.
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Transactions at Pret A Manger
Weekly transactional data from approximately 400 Pret A Manger stores around the UK.
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Revolut spending on debit cards
Experimental indices of Revolut debit card transaction data, UK. Includes sectoral, age and online versus in-store breakdowns. Daily seven-day averages updated weekly plus monthly averages.
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UK spending on credit and debit cards
These data series are experimental real-time indicators for monitoring UK spending using debit and credit cards. They track the daily CHAPS payments made by credit and debit card payment processors to around 100 major UK retail corporates, based on data supplied by the Bank of England.
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Visits to location types using Google Mobility
Changes in the volume of visits to six different location types compared with a pre-coronavirus (COVID-19) baseline, using Google Mobility data.
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Weekly shipping indicators
Experimental weekly and daily ship visits dataset covering UK ports.
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Sales and jobs in small businesses
Monthly dataset showing change in sales and jobs recorded by Xero, an online accounting software platform. This dataset is updated on quarterly bases.
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Daily UK flights
Experimental daily UK flight numbers and rolling seven-day average, including flights to, from, and within the UK.
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Company incorporations, voluntary dissolutions and compulsory dissolutions
The number of Companies House incorporations and voluntary dissolutions accepted, and companies placed into compulsory dissolution: weekly dataset.