Latest developments
Quality Information for Economic Statistics
ONS is committed to providing users with ways to assess the fitness for purpose of official statistics. A programme of work is in progress to produce Quality Reports for important ONS outputs.
The quality of quarterly estimates are being closely monitored during the transition to modernised systems. An article was published in March 2008 describing this work.
International comparisons
OECD Quarterly National Accounts Revisions DatabaseThis database allows users assess the reliability of National Accounts first estimates across 18 OECD countries. The database will be updated in August/September of every year.
An OECD paper accompanying this database was updated in October 2007.
Revisions In Quarterly GDP Of OECD Countries: An Update
ONS jointly hosted an international workshop on revisions analysis, held at the OECD in October 2004.
The UK Experience of Revisions Analysis
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Other links
The Bank of England Real-time database
The Bank of England has constructed a real-time database that contains successive sets of data for a range of macroeconomic time series. The database is updated every year following the publication of the ONS Blue Book.
First Releases
Send us your views
If you wish to send us your views on the subject of revision to economic statistics please email gdp@ons.gov.uk.
Please note: we cannot guarantee that any comments or views you send us will receive individual feedback or replies. However we do promise to look at and consider all views we receive.
More information on ONS's revisions policy
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ONS Policy on Publication of revisions triangles on the ONS website (65.8 Kb Pdf)
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ONS Policy on Standards for presenting revisions in time series First Releases (244.6 Kb Pdf)
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A full listing of available spreadsheets showing revisions in First Releases
Revisions policies for key outputs
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Labour Market Revisions Policy (36.7 Kb Pdf)
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National Accounts Revisions Policy (70.8 Kb Pdf)
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Public Sector Accounts Revisions Policy (15.9 Kb Pdf)
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Retail Sales Index Revisions Policy (47.5 Kb Pdf)
