Wider Measures of UK Public Sector Debt, Supporting Material from ONS

An article from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) published in July 2009, intended to address a recommendation from a series of articles responding to the financial crisis. The supporting material discusses broader definitions of public sector debt. The dataset is an HTML document licensed under OGL-UK-3.0.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical policy responses to financial crises based on the ONS article series mentioned in the description.
• Study the conceptual evolution of public debt measurement based on the discussion of 'wider measures'.
• Research UK government statistical publications from the late 2000s based on the source agency and publication date.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative UK Office for National Statistics.
• Specifically addresses a policy recommendation from a defined series of articles published in July 2009.
• Licensed under the open OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• The core data is presented as an HTML article, not a structured data file.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; data structure must be inferred from the text.
• The temporal coverage is limited to the context of the 2009 financial crisis.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Collection Method

Published as supporting material for an article series.

Time Range

2009

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:01.466406; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom