Emerging economic developments - real-time economic domestic indicators - 2 July 2020

Given the unprecedented speed at which economic activity has reversed, policymakers in all countries are facing important data gaps. These gaps arise because of the inherent lag at which official data – including high-frequency official data – become available.

To plug this gap, and in order to be able to assess economic activity in real-time, the Department has compiled a set of alternative, ‘ultra-high’ frequency data for different sectors of the economy.