A series of articles have been published over the last few months describing the improvements being made to National Accounts. This article summarises the effects of methodological, classification and other changes implemented in the Quarterly National Accounts for the period 1997 to the second quarter of 2017. This dataset is consistent with the UK National Accounts Blue Book 2017, to be published in October 2017.
Publications
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National Accounts articles: Impact of method changes to the national accounts and sector accounts: Quarter 1 1997 to Quarter 2 2017
A summary of the effects of methodological, classification and other changes of BB17 on GDP, SFA, and BoP, and extends previous analysis to cover the period to Quarter 2 2017.
Data
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Supply and Use balanced main components, change 2016 SUTs versus 2017 SUTs by methodological change
This table shows Supply and Use balanced main components and shows changes between Blue Book 2016 and Blue Book 2017.