Provision of the Annual Survey of Goods and Services (ASGS) for the Office for National Statistics

About

Office for National Statistics awarded a contract to IFF Research for the provision of the Annual Survey of Goods and Services (ASGS).

The contract, valued at £2,799,880, was sourced via the CCS DPS Research and Insights RM6126.

The ASGS is a business survey launched in 2017 to address recommendations from Sir Charles Bean's independent review of UK economic statistics, which highlighted insufficient measurement of UK services industries.

The survey captures detailed information on services provided by UK services industries, including turnover generated inside and outside the UK, and product diversification.

Its outputs improve product breakdowns in Supply-Use tables, GDP balancing, and weights and sample for the Service Producer Prices Index.

Wider users include ONS, Bank of England, HM Treasury, Department for Business and Trade, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Scottish Government, Welsh Government, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and general users of economic statistics.