Macroeconomic indicators - revision activity

This is a quick revision activity that I have just done with my AS and A2 students. The aim is to help them to remember some of the current data which they can use in their essays and will enable them to gain credit from examiners for ‘Knowledge of the UK and other economies’. The challenge is to match the data given on the left of the table with the correct indicator on the right of the table - any students who attended the Economics Revision Workshops in London and Manchester the other week and listened carefully to Geoff’s presentation on Prospects for the UK Economy should have a head-start here!

As this is a word document, you should be able to add any other data that you want to, and update it as new figures are released. I believe that all the data given here is correct as at midday on Tuesday 18th May - given the dynamic nature of the economy, some of it will change in the coming days!

Student handout
M_2010_Matching.doc

Answers!
M_2010_Matching_Answers.doc

Unit 2 Macro: Cyclical and Structural Economic Issues Facing the UK [23 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Evaluation on Supply-Side Policies [21 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Migration and the UK Economy [20 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: The Importance of Productivity [20 May 2012]
Revision notes on unemployment [20 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Government Intervention [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Externalities [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Elasticity of Supply [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on Elasticity of Demand [16 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Presentation on the Price Mechanism [16 May 2012]
Improving Evaluation Skills in Economics Exams [16 May 2012]
Final Speaker Line Up for the Economics Teacher Conference 2012 [15 May 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: African Human Development Report 2012 [15 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Price Volatility in Markets [12 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision Blogs on Markets and Intervention [10 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: True and False Revision Questions on Elasticity [10 May 2012]
Command Words in Questions [9 May 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: 10 Key Revision Topics for EdExcel [7 May 2012]
UK Economy Update - AS/A2 Econ Evaluation Special [7 May 2012]
Exam Technique for Economics - Weesteps to Evaluation [5 May 2012]
Macro Revision - Key Statistics on the UK Economy [4 May 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Using the Cost-Benefit Principle [30 Apr 2012]
Macro Revision: Putting Things in Context [29 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: The Euro Zone Crisis (Revision) [22 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Key Diagrams for Business Economics [17 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Managing the Global Commons - Limits to GDP [15 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Mini Documentary on Financial Instability [15 Apr 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Globalisation Revision Quiz [14 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Nationalisation [13 Apr 2012]
Ukraine Hotel ‘Bandits’? [12 Apr 2012]
Government Intervention in the Energy Market [11 Apr 2012]
Football Clubs to Pay for Negative Externalities [11 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Entry Barriers [10 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Price Discrimination [9 Apr 2012]
2012 Economics Revision: Ways to Improve your Paper [9 Apr 2012]
Twitter - Help with Economics Revision [8 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Business Objectives and Pricing [8 Apr 2012]
Unit 3 Micro: Revision on Contestable Markets [8 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Inflation and the Business Environment [6 Apr 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: How the Economic Cycle affects Businesses [6 Apr 2012]
Life in the Slow Lane - UK Growth in 2011 Lags the Euro Area [28 Mar 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Evaluating 3 Years of Quantitative Easing [27 Mar 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Focus on UK Manufacturing [6 Mar 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Highest and Lowest Paid Jobs in the UK [26 Feb 2012]
Pinterest: Board on Developments in the UK Economy [18 Feb 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Is the UK Economy Turning a Corner? [15 Feb 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: King on the UK Economy [15 Feb 2012]
Competitiveness [8 Feb 2012]
Teaching vacancy - Economics & Business Studies, Reed’s School - Cobham, Surrey [19 Jan 2012]
AS and A2 Economics Revision Workshops in Spring 2012 (update) [16 Jan 2012]
Revision Presentation: Economics Evaluation Skills [10 Jan 2012]
Exam Advice: 10 Ideas for a Better Economics Paper [10 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Factors Driving Business Investment [10 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Revision MC Questions on Public and Private Goods [9 Jan 2012]
Unit 4 Macro: Natural Disasters and their Economic Impact [7 Jan 2012]
Unit 2 Macro: Revision Quiz on Economics of Unemployment [5 Jan 2012]
AS and A2 Economics - 10 Ways to Improve Evaluation [4 Jan 2012]
Unit 1 Micro: Prezi on the Economics of Negative Externalities [2 Jan 2012]
Resources on Keynes and Hayek [27 Dec 2011]
Introduction to Neuroeconomics - Fusing Psychology with Economics [16 Dec 2011]
Rory Sutherland at Zeitgeist [1 Dec 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Does UK Manufacturing have a Future? [30 Nov 2011]
Behavioural Economics: Herd Behaviour [28 Nov 2011]
Stephen King - Great Article on Macroeconomics [22 Nov 2011]
Beyond the Bike - The Value of Money [19 Nov 2011]
LSE Lecture: Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow [15 Nov 2011]
LSE lecture: Darwin economy [13 Nov 2011]
Economics Resources - Week Ended 6 November 2011 [6 Nov 2011]
Is happiness the right measure of social progress? [20 Oct 2011]
Unit 2 Macro: UK suffers a weak recovery [12 Oct 2011]
Why Is Macroeconomics Such A Mess? [11 Oct 2011]
Fat tax: Denmark [5 Oct 2011]
UK economic history via YouTube [4 Oct 2011]
UK Macro: Risks of a Double Dip Recession [12 Sep 2011]
Starter Video: The Slums of Manilla [11 Sep 2011]
Econ in the news [7 Sep 2011]
50% tax rates - Chuck it George [7 Sep 2011]
NHS spending good, private provision bad? [5 Sep 2011]
Mixing with the Nobel Economists [4 Sep 2011]
Toilet rolls, soap and climate change [1 Sep 2011]
John Kay on the future of Economics [26 Aug 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: Evan Davis on Re-Balancing the Economy [25 Aug 2011]
Unit 4 Macro: GDP per person since the credit crunch [19 Aug 2011]
Beyond the Bike - Video of the First Two Weeks [8 Aug 2011]
Unit 1 Micro: The Price of Football [2 Aug 2011]
Economics 1 Manchester United 0 [20 Jul 2011]
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RES Essay Competition 2011 - Shortlisted Essays [13 Jun 2011]
Shaping the Future - Blanchflower on the UK Economy [7 Jun 2011]
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Poor Economics - Esther Duflo at the LSE [3 Jun 2011]
AS Macro: Preparing for Unit 2 (May 2011) [25 May 2011]
AS Macro Key Term: Supply-Side Policies [25 May 2011]
AQA Macro: Remember to revise inflation [25 May 2011]
AQA A2 Economics - European Context [23 May 2011]
A2 Micro: The Importance of Profit [19 May 2011]

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