Managing the trade-off between timeliness and accuracy in producing our best estimates of GDP
GDP revisions are often reported, but how much do users understand why revisions are a necessary part of the evolution of the GDP dataset? Andrew Walton and Sumit Dey-Chowdhury explain the compilation process, recent GDP revisions performance, the different reasons for revisions and how ONS are making improvements to the measurement of GDP.
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