Key national statistics such as demographic and economic indicators (GDP, unemployment, population, etc). To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:
- GDP for the whole country updated at least quarterly
- Unemployment statistics updated at least monthly
- Population updated at least once a year
Data Location
https://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/index.htmlComments
The UK's Office for National Statistics has primary responsibility for maintaining and publishing national economic and demographic information (including the Census). ONS material is re-usable under the terms of the Open Government Licence and UK Government Licensing Framework. https://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/datasets-and-tables/index.html lists (as of 14 Oct 2013) 13059 datasets and reference tables available under the OGL. Each of the datasets is downloadable in full, in machine-readable formats (mainly Excel, but some also available in CSV and XML). There are a variety of Census 2011 datasets including population by local authority (https://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/2011-census/key-statistics-and-quick-statistics-for-local-authorities-in-the-united-kingdom---part-1/rft-ks101uk.xls), GDP dataset (2Q2013 at https://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/naa2/quarterly-national-accounts/q2-2013/tsd-quarterly-national-accounts--q2-2013.html with links to XML and CSV formats), and unemployment by age and duration (https://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/lms/labour-market-statistics/september-2013/table-unem01.xls) Some, but not all, of these datasets are fed onto data.gov.uk Statistics are released according to a published schedule.
Data Availability
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Details
| Date the data became available | Unknown |
| Format of data | CSV, Excel |
| Reviewer | anonymous |
| Submitters | anonymous |
| Last modified | Mon Oct 14 2013 13:59:10 GMT+0000 (UTC) |