Thoughts often turn to teaching macro in the New Year (or revising it!) and it's always helpful to have up-to-date data to use. I have put together an excel spreadsheet with over 20 data series on the UK economy covering a wide range of metrics including the gini coefficient and output gap.

You can download this for free from the Economics store - simply add it to your cart and checkout for free - the resource (which we'll update periodically) will be in your mytutor2u resources.

The data series in the spreadsheet cover:

• Actual and Potential GDP
• Consumer credit
• Current account of the BoP
• Economic Inactivity Rate
• Fiscal balance
• Gini Coefficient
• Gross government debt
• House prices
• Income per capita in the EU
• Inflation
• Labour productivity
• Mortgage lending
• Net labour migration
• Output Gap
• Per capita income / spending
• Productivity Gap
• Real GDP
• Real Weekly Earnings
• Savings Ratio
• Stering versus $ and Euro
• Trade weighted sterling
• Unemployment rate
• Wage Phillips Curve