It has adjusted UK gross value added, a measure of economic output, to exclude energy extraction and use, and also financial and insurance activities.

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The standard measure is gross value-added the output of an industry minus the costs of production.

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Gross value added is calculated at the level of branches of the economy as the value of output of goods and services less the value of intermediate consumption.

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