Household Expenditure time series data for the UK, produced by the Office for National Statistics. It includes annual and quarterly data at current prices, not seasonally adjusted, starting from 1948. A detailed breakdown of goods and services is provided.
Use Cases
- Modeling consumer spending trends based on annual and quarterly time series data.
- Analyzing the composition of household budgets based on the detailed breakdown of goods and services.
- Forecasting economic indicators using historical expenditure data from 1948.
- Comparing expenditure patterns across different goods and services categories mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Data series begins in 1948, providing a long historical view.
- Includes both annual and quarterly granularity for analysis.
- Produced and designated as National Statistics by the 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.
Provenance
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- Time Range
- From 1948
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:49.673254; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United Kingdom