Selected non-seasonally adjusted chained volume measures of retail sales in Great Britain. The data are sourced from Table 3M of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Retail Sales Index reference tables and retain the "All Businesses" series.
Format
A tibble with monthly observations:
- date
First day of the reference month (
Date).- name_series
ONS series name in lower-case, hyphenated form.
- value
Non-seasonally adjusted chained volume index of sales per week (2023 = 100).
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 1988 through January 2026. The
name_series column contains the following selected series:
household-goods-stores, computers-and-telecomms-equipment,
electrical-household-appliances,
pharmaceutical-medical-cosmetic-and-toilet-goods,
books-newspapers-and-periodicals,
alcoholic-drinks-other-beverages-and-tobacco, clothing,
all-retailing-including-automotive-fuel, and
all-retailing-excluding-automotive-fuel.
Missing values in value represent empty cells in the ONS source table.