Economy ONS has today published details of exactly how it plans to use VAT returns in the calculation of GDP from next month.
Initially, ONS will use 600,000 VAT returns from small and medium-sized businesses, with this number increasing over the next couple of years.
This blog post from ONS Chief Economist Nick Vaughan explains the improvements in more detail. Office for National Statistics has previously announced its plans to use Value Added Tax (VAT) returns in the calculation of its quarterly national accounts releases by the end of 2017. This article gives details about exactly how VAT data will be used. Initially, ONS will begin to use VAT data for small & medium-sized businesses for all industries covered by the monthly business surveys excluding retail, which cover around 25% of monthly output. In addition, VAT will initially only be used to estimate growth rates, will the overall level of output still derived from the Annual Business Survey.
Over time the majority of turnover will be recorded using VAT returns, with monthly surveys only used to cover the largest businesses. People, population and community In 2016, there were 774,835 live births in the UK, a decrease of 0.3% from 777,165 in 2015.
There were 3,430 stillbirths in the UK in 2016; the corresponding stillbirth rate was 4.4 stillbirths per 1,000 total births, unchanged from 2015 and the lowest rate on record.
There were 597,206 deaths registered in the UK in 2016, a decrease of 0.9% from 602,782 in 2015.
There were 3,501 deaths to children aged under five years registered in the UK in 2016; the corresponding mortality rate was 4.5 deaths per 1,000 live births, unchanged since 2014.
There were 3,004 infant deaths registered in the UK in 2016; the corresponding infant mortality rate was 3.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, unchanged since 2013 and the lowest rate on record.
There were 2,136 neonatal deaths (deaths under 28 days) registered in the UK in 2016; the corresponding neonatal mortality rate was 2.8 deaths per 1,000 live births, up slightly from 2.7 between 2013 and 2015.
There were 1,044 civil partnerships formed in the UK in 2016, an increase of 3.0% from 1,014 in 2015.
UK figures for marriages, divorces and civil partnership dissolutions in 2016 are not yet available.
Live births in the UK by area of usual residence of mother. The tables contain summary data for local authorities and local health boards (within Wales) including figures by age of mother.
Research and population statistics from a methodology different to that currently used in the production of official population statistics. These Research Outputs are not official statistics on the population. | 
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