Reconciled estimates and nowcasts of regional output in the UK

Gary Koop, Stuart McIntyre, James Mitchell, Aubrey Poon

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Abstract

There is renewed interest in levelling up the regions of the UK. The combination of social and political discontent, and the sluggishness of key UK macroeconomic indicators like productivity growth, has led to increased interest in understanding the regional economies of the UK. In turn, this has led to more investment in economic statistics. Specifically, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently started to produce quarterly regional GDP data for the nine English regions and Wales that date back to 2012Q1. This complements existing real GVA data for the regions available from the ONS on an annual basis back to 1998; with the devolved administrations of Scotland and Northern Ireland producing their own quarterly output measures. In this paper we reconcile these two data sources along with UK quarterly output data that date back to 1970. This enables us to produce both more timely real terms estimates of quarterly economic growth in the regions of the UK and a new reconciled historical time-series of quarterly regional real output data from 1970. We explore a number of features of interest of these new data. This includes producing a new quarterly regional productivity series and commenting on the evolution of regional productivity growth in the UK.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)R44-R59
Number of pages16
JournalNational Institute Economic Review
Volume253
Early online date28 Jul 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Aug 2020

Keywords

  • Bayesian methods
  • mixed frequency
  • regional nowcasting
  • vector auto-regressions
  • regional productivity
  • regional economics

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