This is one of a series of reports prepared under the provisions of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 . The Act requires all statistics currently designated as National Statistics to be assessed against the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

The report covers sets of National Statistics that are released by the Scottish Government in the following publications and web releases:

  • Quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Scotland;
  • Input-Output Tables and Multipliers for Scotland; and
  • Scottish Quarterly Index of Manufactured Exports

Scottish Macro-Economic Statistics (Scottish Government): Letter of Confirmation as National Statistics