Non-seasonally adjusted chained volume measure of retail sales for automotive fuel in Great Britain. This is the ONS "Automotive Fuel, All Businesses" series from Table 3M of the Retail Sales Index reference tables.
Format
A tibble with monthly observations:
- date
First day of the reference month (
Date).- value
Non-seasonally adjusted chained volume index of sales per week (2023 = 100).
- name
Series name, always
Retail Sales - Automotive Fuel.- frequency
Frequency code, always
"M"(monthly).- source
Short source label, always
"ONS".
Source
Office for National Statistics (ONS), Retail Sales Index reference tables, Table 3M,
"Chained volume of retail sales, non-seasonally adjusted".
See the Retail Sales Index (RSI) Quality and Methodology Information report.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0,
except where otherwise stated. This package distributes a processed subset
of the ONS table; see data-raw/uk_data.R for the transformation code.
Details
Values are index numbers of sales per week, with 2023 = 100. ONS uses a
four-week, four-week, five-week reporting cycle; date records the first
day of the corresponding reference month and should not be interpreted as
a calendar-month total. The Retail Sales Index covers Great Britain, not
the whole UK: Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands
are excluded.
The bundled snapshot covers January 1996 through January 2026.