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UK Economy Databank
3rd January 2018
Thoughts often turn to teaching macro in the New Year (or revising it!) and it's always helpful to have up-to-date data to use. I have put together an excel spreadsheet with over 20 data series on the UK economy covering a wide range of metrics including the gini coefficient and output gap.
You can download this for free from the Economics store - simply add it to your cart and checkout for free - the resource (which we'll update periodically) will be in your mytutor2u resources.
The data series in the spreadsheet cover:
- Actual and Potential GDP
- Consumer credit
- Current account of the BoP
- Economic Inactivity Rate
- Fiscal balance
- Gini Coefficient
- Gross government debt
- House prices
- Income per capita in the EU
- Inflation
- Labour productivity
- Mortgage lending
- Net labour migration
- Output Gap
- Per capita income / spending
- Productivity Gap
- Real GDP
- Real Weekly Earnings
- Savings Ratio
- Stering versus $ and Euro
- Trade weighted sterling
- Unemployment rate
- Wage Phillips Curve
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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