retail_autofuel: Great Britain Retail Sales Volume Index: Automotive Fuel

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Great Britain Retail Sales Volume Index: Automotive Fuel

Description

Non-seasonally adjusted chained volume measure of retail sales for automotive fuel in Great Britain. This is the ONS "Automotive Fuel, All Businesses" series from Table 3M of the Retail Sales Index reference tables.

Usage

retail_autofuel

Format

A tibble with monthly observations:

date

First day of the reference month (Date).

value

Non-seasonally adjusted chained volume index of sales per week (2023 = 100).

name

Series name, always ⁠Retail Sales - Automotive Fuel⁠.

frequency

Frequency code, always "M" (monthly).

source

Short source label, always "ONS".

Details

Values are index numbers of sales per week, with 2023 = 100. ONS uses a four-week, four-week, five-week reporting cycle; date records the first day of the corresponding reference month and should not be interpreted as a calendar-month total. The Retail Sales Index covers Great Britain, not the whole UK: Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands are excluded.

The bundled snapshot covers January 1996 through January 2026.

Source

Office for National Statistics (ONS), Retail Sales Index reference tables, Table 3M, "Chained volume of retail sales, non-seasonally adjusted". See the Retail Sales Index (RSI) Quality and Methodology Information report. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated. This package distributes a processed subset of the ONS table; see data-raw/uk_data.R for the transformation code.

See Also

retail_volume

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