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Experimental monthly Index of Services: Development programme update
This article sets out the progress made in the development of the Index of Services since October 2003
This article includes reviews of the achievements in terms of published outputs and the improvements made in the methods and data sources to measure the Index of Services (IoS).
It also looks at the recent revisions performance of the IoS and its components, as well as the progress being made on dropping IoS's 'experimental' label.
The article concludes by looking at the challenges of the next 12 months and also puts UK development into an international context.
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