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On a daily basis, organisations such as the Office for National Statistics release data about a range of issues and across different geographies.

Here we attempt to sign-post upcoming data releases for you, providing links to data sources and regular (national) releases. Through this section of the site, you'll also find links to SWO Briefings on specific data releases, providing some context and analysis on the issue for the South West and its Local Areas, and Key Facts Briefings for each month. You'll also find highlighted at the bottom of the page a range of useful data sources, including international ones.

Still not sure where to look or what to look for? Email questions to enquiries@swo.org.uk and we'll endeavour to answer them for you.

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  • NEW - ONS Local Data Use Advice Sheet [pdf / 59KB] All ONS Regional Statisticians (RS) posts will expire at the end of March 2011. This document advises data users who to contact for services that they would previously have asked RSs about. It is not a comprehensive list of data sources.
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  • Key Facts Briefing - February 2011 [pdf / 12KB] With updated February information on claimant count, age and duration, claimant flows and volumes, incapcity benefit, ESA, income support, lone parents, vacancies notified, employment, recruitmentment activity plus redundancies/downturn.
* For the latest briefings from around the SWO network, please refer to the Thematic Module websites for Economy, Skills and Learning, Environment, Public Health and Culture.
The sources that are linked to below give the latest and previous releases of key monthly data by topic.  Most relate to economic data and regional and sub-regional information is only available where indicated (REG, SUB).

Monthly Digest of Statistics  - A reference work containing the latest business, economic and social data.

Economy & Business ~

Construction Industry, New Orders (REG) - New construction orders broken down by sector, region and type of work.

Consumer Price Indices  - Price indices, including change over time, for the CPI, RPI and their components.

Consumer Price Indices, Focus on  - Detailed information on: Consumer Prices Index (CPI), Retail Prices Index (RPI) and inflation.

Earnings, Average Weekly (AWE) - A monthly measure of the AWE per job in Great Britain, an experimental index prior to December 2009.

Economic & Labour Market Review (ELMR) - Draws together research and analysis to build a statistical picture of the UK economy and labour market.

Engineering Turnover and Orders  - Estimates for the engineering sector, published at current prices covering turnover and orders.

External Trade Statistics, Monthly Review  - UK exports and imports of goods.

Financial Statistics  - Contains current data on a wide variety of aspects of finance.

Index of Production (IoP) - Measures the volume of production for the manufacturing, mining & quarrying and energy supply industries.

Index of Services - Shows the monthly movements in gross value added for the service industries.

Producer Prices (PPI)  - Indices of materials and fuels purchased and output of manufacturing industry by broad sector.

Producer Price Indices (MM22)  - Cost indices on UK manufactured products together with materials, fuel and sales, by industry.

Public Sector Finances  - Latest data on the Public Sector Net Borrowing, Net debt and the cash requirement.

Retail Sales Index  - First estimate of retail sales in value and volume terms.

Retail Sales Business Monitor (SDM28) - Detailed estimates of retail sales in Great Britain.

UK Trade  - Latest data on trade in goods by industry group as well as estimates for total trade in services.

Labour Market ~

Labour Market Statistics Regional Monthly Data REG SUB - Spreadsheets of the latest labour market data at regional and sub-regional levels.
Note: Quarterly Regional Labour Market statistical releases are also published.

Labour Market Statistics National Statistical Bulletin  - Latest labour market data.

People and Places ~
Overseas Travel and Tourism - monthly estimates  - Data showing the number and expenditure of overseas visitors to the UK and of UK residents visits abroad.

House Price Index REG - Mix-adjusted house price series from CLG, published as experimental official statistics.

National ~

Neighbourhood Statistics - Source of small area datasets with a particular focus on deprivation, but including Census and other neighbourhood level data.

NOMIS - Access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources, including population and Census data.

National Statistics Time Series Data - A comprehensive database of more than 40,000 time series from major economic and socio-economic releases.

National Statistics Bookshelf - A clickable index of online National Statistics publications

Data4NR - A signpost of small area data. Designed to aid targeting, monitoring, priority setting and performance management at a neighbourhood level.

International ~ 

Eurostat - EU Statistics, including regional and sub-regional data.

UN Statistics Division - Responsible for the compilation and dissemination of global statistical information and for developing standards

OECD Stat Extracts - Includes data and metadata for countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development and selected non-member economies.

 

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