Office for National Statistics provides data on business spending on capital items. The dataset is used for national accounts and to calculate weights for deflating quarterly capital expenditure survey results. It was last updated on 2026-07-08.
Use Cases
- Calculate deflator weights for capital expenditure surveys based on the described purpose.
- Inform national accounts and macroeconomic analysis based on the stated use for economists.
- Analyze trends in business investment based on the capital spending data.
Strengths
- Designated as National Statistics, indicating official status.
- Last updated on 2026-07-08, suggesting current data.
- Source agency is the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data.
Provenance
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:27.703195
- Geography
- United Kingdom