RSI data {regspec}

Retail Sales Index (RSI) data

Description

This data frame is taken from the online data resource of the U.K.'s Office for National Statistics. It contains time-indexed values of a retail sales index, a figure describing the turnover of retail businesses as a percentage of a 2010 baseline.

Details

The original data files are no longer hosted on the main ONS webpages but, for the foreseeable future, ought to be accessible via the UK's National Archives https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html.

References

Nason, G.P., Powell, B., Elliott, D. and Smith, P. (2016) Should We Sample a Time Series More Frequently? Decision Support via Multirate Spectrum Estimation. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A., 179, (to appear).