Index of Services, August 2014

24 Oct 2014 03:03 PM

Key points

• The Index of Services increased by 3.1% in August 2014 compared with August 2013. All of the four main components of the services industries increased in the most recent month compared with the same month a year ago.
• The largest contributions came from: business services & finance, which contributed 1.5 percentage points to total growth; and distribution, hotels & restaurants, which contributed 0.7 percentage points to total growth.
• The latest Index of Services estimates show that output was flat between July 2014 and August 2014.
• The figures within this release are estimates and are on a seasonally adjusted basis. The earliest period open for revision in this release is July 2014.

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