Services Producer Price Indices (SPPI): Quarterly UK Business-to-Business Service Prices

The Services Producer Price Index (SPPI) is a suite of individual price indices tracking quarterly price changes for a limited range of service industries in the United Kingdom. Each index measures the price received by UK businesses for services provided to other UK businesses and the Government, aggregated to create a limited-coverage 'service industry' SPPI. This dataset is designated as National Statistics and is produced by the UK's Office for National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Modeling service sector inflation based on quarterly price change indices.
• Analyzing price transmission between business-to-business service industries.
• Benchmarking service costs for economic forecasting based on aggregated industry indices.
• Studying the impact of government policy on service prices based on transactions with Government.

Strengths

• Data is designated as National Statistics, indicating a high standard of official quality.
• Indices are updated quarterly, providing regular measurements of price change.
• Source agency is the authoritative Office for National Statistics.

Limitations

• Coverage is described as limited to a range of service industries, not the entire sector.
• 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

Collection Method

Likely collected via business surveys and administrative data.

Time Range

Quarterly time series; specific start date is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:18.111665; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom