Overview of UK National Accounts and Balance of Payments: Blue Book and Pink Book 2008

摘要

Published to coincide with both sets of estimates, including the introduction of a new method for measuring financial intermediationThe Quarterly National Accounts andBalance of Payments estimates publishedon 30 September 2008 are consistentwith the annual Blue Book and Pink Book.The data sets refl ect the introduction ofa new method for measuring fi nancialintermediation, incorporation of annualbenchmark survey data and supply-usebalancing of 2004 to 2006, and latestquarterly and monthly data for morerecent periods. This article was publishedto coincide with both sets of estimates. Economic & Labour Market Review (2008) 2, 33–43; doi:10.1057/elmr.2008.153