Publication - Research and analysis

State of the economy: February 2020

Published: 14 February 2020
Directorate: Chief Economist Directorate
Topic: Economy
ISBN: 9781839605666

Report produced tri-annually by the Chief Economic Adviser to provide a picture of the Scottish economy in an international context.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 https://www.gov.scot/publications/gdp-quarterly-national-accounts-for-scotland-2019-q3/

2 https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/bulletins/gdpfirstquarterlyestimateuk/octobertodecember2019

3 https://www.gov.scot/publications/gdp-quarterly-national-accounts-for-scotland-2019-q3/

4 https://www.scottishchambers.org.uk/press_policy/scottish-business-call-on-government-to-bring-confidence-to-the-market/

5 https://www.addleshawgoddard.com/globalassets/insights/general/fraser-of-allander-business-monitor-report-q4-2019.pdf

6 https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy-report/2020/january-2020/current-economic-conditions#agents

7 https://www.gov.scot/publications/retail-sales-index-2019-q-4/

8 https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0054/00549095.pdf

9 When applied to the Scottish economy, the SIC has around 100 low level industries which nest into larger levels of industries. Because of the risk of publishing disclosive information data are only published on the larger groups of industries.

10 Using data on the amount of money flowing between the lowest published level sub industries of the Scottish economy, from 2016 input-output tables.

11 https://www.gov.scot/publications/gdp-quarterly-national-accounts-for-scotland-2019-q3/

12 https://www.gov.scot/publications/gdp-quarterly-national-accounts-for-scotland-2019-q3/

13 https://www.markiteconomics.com/Public/Home/PressRelease/97474782886548d5a983316e86820ced

14 https://www.markiteconomics.com/Public/Home/PressRelease/8484b7934c3a4cdaa0296c176c51b21d

15 https://www.gov.scot/collections/labour-market-statistics/

16 https://www.markiteconomics.com/Public/Home/PressRelease/1f3d02e234a143b49c73ad29da1021a4

17 https://www.fiscalcommission.scot/forecast/scotlands-economic-and-fiscal-forecasts-february-2020/

18 https://www.gov.scot/publications/annual-survey-of-hours-and-earnings-2019/

19 https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/earningsandemploymentfrompayasyouearnrealtimeinformationuk/july2014tonovember2019

20 https://www.fiscalcommission.scot/forecast/scotlands-economic-and-fiscal-forecasts-february-2020/

21 https://www.gov.scot/publications/labour-productivity-statistics-2019-q3/

22 https://www.fiscalcommission.scot/forecast/scotlands-economic-and-fiscal-forecasts-february-2020/