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CENTRAL STATISTICAL OFFICE MONTHLY DIGEST OF STATISTICS SUPPLEMENT DEFINITIONS AND EXPLANATORY NOTES BANKCc£HOtAND REFERS' W*Y Revised January 1964 13FEBV364 LONDON: HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 1964 THREE SHILLINGS MONTHLY DIGEST OF STATISTICS Definitions and explanatory notes This Supplement gives definitions of items and units employed in the Monthly Digest of Statistics in more detail than is possible in the headings and footnotes of the tables of the Monthly Digest itself. 2. This issue replaces that published in January 1963. 3. The definitions relate to the tables as they appear in issue No. 217 of the Monthly Digest for January 1964. If further new series are added or changes are made in the Digest before the next issue of this Supplement, additional definitions will be given where necessary in the footnotes to the tables in the Digest. 4. The definitions in this Supplement also apply to corresponding items in Financial Statistics (issued monthly) and the Annual Abstract of Statistics, both prepared by the Central Statistical Office and published by H.M. Stationery Office. When annual figures such as appear in the Monthly Digest are given in greater detail in the Annual Abstract, the additional explanatory notes are shown in the Abstract. 5. Weekly averages are used in the Digest where the basic figures are collected on a weekly basis, and also in a few cases, indicated by footnotes, where the basic figures are for calendar months. Where weekly averages are given for months they represent the totals of four-week or five-week periods divided by four or five respectively. The average of a five-week period is indicated by an asterisk through out the Digest. Central Statistical Office, Great George Street, S.W.I. 24th January, 1964. 1 1 CONTENTS C ONTENTS—continued Page XII. Construction Page Introduction .. • • 1 Output and employment .. .. 42 Table of contents 2 Industrial building .. .. .. .. .. .. 42 Housing .. .. .. .. 43 I. National income and expenditure Educational building .. .. .. .. .. .. 43 Gross domestic product 4 Building materials and components .. 44 Consumers' expenditure .. • • 4 Current account of the central government 6 XIII. Retailing and catering .. .. .. .. .. 45 Gross fixed capital formation .. .. .. • 6 Value of physical increase in stocks and work in progress .. 7 XIV. Transport II. Weather 7 Road vehicles, road traffic index and casualties .. .. 46 Traffic receipts, passenger journeys and freight traffic .. 48 III. Population and vital statistics • • • • 8 Shipping registered and shipping movement 49 Civil aviation .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 50 IV. Labour Manpower and employment .. ...... .. 8 Overtime and short-time in manufacturing industries.. .. 10 XV. External trade Unemployment, vacancies and stoppages .. .. • • 10 Imports and exports .. .. 1 Quantities and values .. .. .. .. .. .. 3 V. Social services Volume index .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 Expenditure on social services and housing .. .. .. 11 Areas and countries .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 National insurance and family allowances .. .. .. 11 National assistance and'old age pensions .. .. .. 12 XVI. Overseas finance National health services .. .. .. 12 Balance of payments .. .. .. .. .. .. 55 Reserves and sterling claims and liabilities .. .. .. 56 VI. Agriculture and food Crops, grass and livestock .. .. .. .. • • 14 Disposals of food and animal feedingstuffs .. .. .. 15 XVII. Home finance Production, disposals and stocks of food and feedingstuffs .. 15 Exchequer receipts and issues .. .. .. .. .. 57 Tea, coffee and soft drinks .. •. 19 Exchequer financing .. .. .. .. .. .. 58 Beer, spirits and tobacco .. .. .. .. • • 19 Inland Revenue duties .. .. .. .. .. .. 60 Household food expenditure and consumption .. .. 20 Capital issues .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 60 Bank of England, London clearing and Scottish banks .. 60 VII. Index of industrial production .. .. 22 Bank clearings and currency circulation .. .. .. 63 Bank advances .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 64 VIII. Fuel and power Discount market .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 65 Coal: production and consumption .. .. .. .. 23 Hire purchase and other instalment credit .. .. .. 66 Coal: stocks and productivity .. .. .. .. .. 24 Industrial securities .. .. .. .. .. .. 67 Coke, gas and electricity .. .. .. .. .. .. 25 Petroleum .. .. .. .. .. 26 XVIII. Wages and prices IX. Chemicals Average weekly earnings and hours worked 67 Fertilizers .. .. .. 26 Index of weekly and hourly wage rates .. .. .. 68 Synthetic dyestuffs, colours, paint and varnish .. .. 27 Index of retail prices .. .. .. .. .. .. 71 Sulphur, sulphuric acid and industrial alcohol .. .. 28 Index numbers of wholesale prices .. .. .. .. 72 Synthetic resins and plastics materials, soap and detergents 28 Import and export unit value index numbers .. .. .. 73 Tramp shipping freights .. .. .. .. .. .. 74 X. Metals, engineering and vehicles Index numbers of agricultural prices .. .. .. .. 74 Iron and steel .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 29 Non-ferrous metals .. .. .. .. .. .. 30 XIX. Entertainment Mechanical and electrical engineering products .. .. 32 Broadcast receiving licences .. .. .. .. .. 75 Merchant shipbuilding .. .. .. .. .. .. 35 Cinema statistics .. .. .. .. .. .. 75 Vehicles .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 35 Gramophone records .. .. .. .. .. .. 75 XI. Textiles and other manufactures Appendix I Textiles and hosiery .. .. .. .. .. .. 37 Leather and footwear .. .. .. .. .. .. 39 Standard regions for statistical purposes .. .. .. 76 Timber and domestic furniture .. .. .. .. .. 39 Paper-making materials and paper and board .. .. .. 40 Appendix II Rubber and other manufactures .. .. .. .. 41 Standard Industrial Classification .. 77 3 I. NATIONAL INCOME AND EXPENDITURE Expenditure on consumers' goods and services by business firms and public authorities is in principle excluded. Personal expenditure on meals in restaurants The tables in this section are designed to bring up to date the estimates for and hotels is spread over three categories: the cost to the establishment of the food calendar years given in National Income and Expenditure, 1963 (H.M.S.O., 1963). used appears in the item ' Food'; consumers' expenditure on alcoholic drink is A brief description of the items appearing in the tables is given in the latter pub included in the item ' Alcoholic drink ' and the remainder of consumers' expen lication. A detailed description of the sources, methods and definitions used in diture m catering establishments is included in the item ' Other services'. making the estimates is given in National Income Statistics: Sources and Methods The figures represent the expenditure of consumers on goods and services of (H.M.S.O., 1956). Important changes in sources and methods are described in all kinds whether these are provided out of new production or from stock. articles in Economic Trends, in particular in the issues of January, July and August Second-hand goods are not in general included but an allowance is made for the 1958, March 1959, August 1960, March and July 1961, April 1962 and January costs, including profit, of handling and reconditioning them. 1963. „ . Purchases of land, houses and other buildings are excluded and treated as fixed It is not always possible to record all the various items of expenditure in the capital formation; stamp duties, legal fees and agents' commissions incurred in tables on precisely the same basis or at the same point in time. For example, connection with the transfer of ownership of land and buildings are similarly consumers' expenditure on alcoholic drink is estimated in practice from the treated. quantities cleared from bond and not from the quantities sold; expenditure on goods and services by public authorities and capital expenditure by businesses The composition of the various categories of expenditure is set out below. during a given period may not coincide with the recorded output of the goods purchased, or with the incomes generated by this expenditure, during the same Food—purchases of food, including non-alcoholic beverages, by households, period. These inconsistencies, of course, affect the estimates for complete years; together with the value at farm prices of farm produce consumed on farms but they are likely to affect the estimates for shorter periods to a much greater and the cost to the caterer of food provided in canteens, restaurants and extent. Hence only guarded conclusions should be drawn about changes in hotels. The full cost to government and consumer of the welfare foods the pattern of expenditure, and in the relations between expenditure, income and provided under the national milk, milk-in-schools and vitamin schemes is output, from one quarter to another. included in this item. Seasonally adjusted estimates are given for gross domestic product and the main Alcoholic drink- expenditure components at constant prices, for the main factor incomes and for the personal income and expenditure account. These estimates are designed to Beer: beer, ale, stout and porter. assist in the interpretation of the original unadjusted estimates. Descriptions of Other: imported wines, British wines, spirits, cider and perry. the methods used in arriving at the seasonally adjusted figures were published in the issues of Economic Trends for January and October 1960 and July 1961. Tobacco—purchases in the United Kingdom of home produced cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cigars and snuff and all imports of finished tobacco products. Gross domestic product Housing—expenditure on rent, rates, water charges and insurance relating to dwelling houses and

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