Digital Sector Economic Estimates Series
Source: gov.uk (2025-07-10)

This series brings together all documents produced by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) relating to Digital Sector Economic Estimates

In releases prior to April 2024, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) were responsible for publishing figures for the digital sector - these releases can be found here (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/dcms-sectors-economic-estimates).

Please see the DSIT release calendar (https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=department-for-science-innovation-and-technology&order=release-date-oldest) for information on when the next release(s) in the series will be published by DSIT.

Releases

The Digital Sector Economic Estimates Series provide statistics on the contribution of various sectors to the UK economy, measured by:

DSIT have recently concluded a consultation on the planned future of the Digital Sector Economic Estimates series - the DSIT response to this consultation can be accessed using this link (https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/dsit-digital-sector-economic-estimates-consultation).

Methodology

The methodologies used in the Digital Sector Economic Estimates series vary for each release. For the exact methodology in each release type, see the relevant technical report published alongside each release.

Accredited official statistics

The approach for annual GVA, regional GVA, and business demographics were independently reviewed (https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence/national-statistics-confirmation-dcms-sectors-economic-estimates/) by the Office for Statistics Regulation in 2018/19, when responsibility for the digital sector was still held by DCMS. They comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics and are labelled accredited official statistics. Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.

DSIT will continue to comply with these standards in any of these releases that we produce.

Previous releases in the Digital Sector Economic Estimates: Employment series were also classed as Accredited Official Statistics. The Office for Statistics Regulation (https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/what-we-do/) (OSR) has now removed accreditation (https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence/ed-humpherson-to-jessie-evans-request-to-remove-accreditation/) for the Employment series at our request (https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence/jessie-evans-to-ed-humpherson-request-to-remove-accreditation/), following ONS reporting concerns with the quality of estimates for smaller segments of the APS population, which the Digital Sector Economic Estimates: Employment series depends upon. For more information, please see the Employment (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/digital-sector-economic-estimates-employment) collection page.

User feedback

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