Bank of England Articles on Statistics
Key statistical articles can be found below organised by category.
Money and Divisia
- UK monetary aggregates main definitional changes since 1970
- Assessing the reliability of monetary statistics
- Compilation methods of the components of broad money and its balance sheet counterparts
- Counterparts to changes in M4 a user guide
- Measures of M4 and M4 lending excluding intermediate other financial corporations
- Counterparts to M4ex
- Replacement of the Bank Return and changes to the release of notes and coin
- Divisia indices for money an appraisal of theory and practice
- A new measure of Divisia money
- Improvements to Divisia money series
- Amendments to Divisia money series
Credit
- Impact of securitisations and loan transfers activity on M4 lending
- Changes to the FSA Statistics on Mortgage Lending following the creation of the PRA and FCA
- Data on lending to UK SMEs
- Credit Union Statistics (pdf) (xls)
- A new measure of consumer credit
- Changes to the treatment of loan transfers and lending to housing associations
- A loan-level data collection for buy-to-let lending
- A loan-level data collection for buy-to-let lending details of phase 2 of the collection
- A loan-level data collection for buy-to-let lending phase 3 of the collection (buy-to-let loans within corporate business units)
Seasonal Adjustment
- Change in policy for seasonal adjustment of quarterly series
- Change of seasonal adjustment method to X-12-ARIMA
- Historical comparison of seasonally adjusted series using GLAS and X-12-ARIMA
- The treatment of securitisations and loan transfers when seasonally adjusting using X-12-ARIMA
- Seasonal adjustment of monetary data annual review by Martin Daines
- Changes to the annual seasonal adjustment review
- Seasonal adjustment 2008 annual review 2009 annual review 2010 annual review 2012 annual review
- Seasonal adjustment 2012 update 2014 update 2015 update 2016 update 2017 update
- Seasonal adjustment effects of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee
- Seasonal adjustment of quarterly M4 excluding intermediate OFCs (M4ex)
- Seasonal adjustment of M4 excluding intermediate OFCs (M4ex) – an update
- Seasonal adjustment of UK monetary aggregates direct versus indirect approach