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UK Consumer Data

Retail Economics identifies crucial economic indicators which underpin the strength of UK household spending.

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  • Retail sales by category: food, clothing, electricals, homewares etc.
  • Online retail sales growth
  • Access underlying data for graphs and charts in your insight reports
  • Downloadable retail sales time series data and more...

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Non-members can only view and select data up to December 2014. Subscribers can view and select the latest available data, going back up to ten years.

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UK Output (ONS)

% change 42689 43692 41593 42597 Source Download
GDP (% change Q-o-Q) 0.6 0.5 ONS
GDP (% change Y-o-Y) 1 0.9 ONS

Consumer Spending - year-on-year (ONS)

% change 42689 43692 41593 42597 Source Download
Consumer Spending y/y 3.6 1.2 ONS
Household Expenditure - Food and Non-Alcohol y/y 7.8 0.7 ONS
Household Expenditure - Alcohol and Tobacco y/y -2.7 -4.7 ONS
Household Expenditure - Clothing and Footwear y/y 3 9.8 ONS
Household Expenditure - Housing Costs y/y 3 0.7 ONS
Household Expenditure - Furniture and Household y/y 2.9 -4.3 ONS
Household Expenditure - Health y/y 1.7 6.3 ONS
Household Expenditure - Transport y/y 2.7 -0.5 ONS
Household Expenditure - Communications y/y 2.2 -4.8 ONS
Household Expenditure - Recreation and Culture y/y 5 4.2 ONS
Household Expenditure - Education y/y 3.1 2.4 ONS
Household Expenditure - Restaurants and Hotels y/y 1.5 1.6 ONS
Household Expenditure - Miscellaneous y/y 6.6 1.6 ONS

Consumer Spending - quarter-on-quarter (ONS)

% change 42689 43692 41593 42597 Source Download
Consumer Spending q/q 2.1 0.7 ONS
Household Expenditure - Food and Non-Alcohol q/q 0.6 0.2 ONS
Household Expenditure - Alcohol and Tobacco q/q -0.5 0.2 ONS
Household Expenditure - Clothing and Footwear q/q 0.8 1.7 ONS
Household Expenditure - Housing Costs q/q 0.5 -0.6 ONS
Household Expenditure - Furniture and Household q/q 1.6 -0.6 ONS
Household Expenditure - Health q/q 2.9 1.1 ONS
Household Expenditure - Transport q/q -0.2 -0.7 ONS
Household Expenditure - Communications q/q 0.5 -1.2 ONS
Household Expenditure - Recreation and Culture q/q 2.3 1.2 ONS
Household Expenditure - Education q/q -0.4 0.8 ONS
Household Expenditure - Restaurants and Hotels q/q 0.2 1 ONS
Household Expenditure - Miscellaneous q/q 0.1 0.1 ONS

UK Retail Sales (ONS)

% change year-on-year Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source Download
ONS Retail Sales Value NSA 2.2 1.8 2.9 1.7 ONS
ONS Retail Sales Volume NSA 1.2 1.6 3.2 2 ONS

Housing Data (Bank of England)

% change year-on-year Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source Download
UK mortgage approvals y/y 26.8 43.8 49.6 41.5 Bank of England
UK mortgage approvals m/m 43.9 60 17 47.8 Bank of England
UK mortgage approvals (thousands) 62.7 65.3 66.1 68.3 Bank of England

Credit and Borrowing (Bank of England)

% change year-on-year Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source Download
Secured Lending 1.6 2 2 2.2 Bank of England
Net unsecured borrowing 7.8 7.7 7.5 7.3 Bank of England

Household Data (ONS)

% change 42689 43692 41593 42597 Source Download
Real households' disposable income y/y -0.9 1.3 ONS
Real households' disposable income q/q -1.1 -0.4 ONS
Interest payments as a percentage of income 4.2 3.9 ONS
Total debt to income ratio 136.7 133.2 ONS
Source: Where ONS is noted as a source, this is licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.

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