SPPI: UK Services Producer Price Index for Business-to-Business Services

UK data on quarterly price changes for services provided by UK businesses to other UK businesses and Government. The dataset is a suite of individual price indices for a limited range of service industries, aggregated to create a 'service industry' index. It is produced by the Office for National Statistics as Experimental Official Statistics.

Use Cases

• Tracking inflation in the service sector based on the aggregated 'service industry' index.
• Analyzing price trends for specific UK service industries based on the suite of individual indices.
• Modeling business-to-business service costs based on quarterly price change data.
• Informing economic policy related to service industry inflation based on official statistics.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Data is designated as Experimental Official Statistics, indicating a formal statistical process.
• Captures quarterly price changes, providing a regular time series.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Likely collected via business surveys and administrative data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:21.216942; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom