For the first time, UK long-term international migration statistics no longer rely on survey data but are, instead, produced using administrative data. While this is a landmark moment and gives us an improved picture of past migration patterns, using admin data can present fresh challenges, as Mary Gregory explains.
Building momentum to deliver further improvements to the quality of our core statistics is the big focus for the Office for National Statistics as we enter the new year. ONS Director General of Surveys and Economic Statistics James Benford looks ahead to some of the planned changes that are due to be rolled out this year to improve the quality of key economic statistics.
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For a few years now the ONS has been going beyond its traditional measures of productivity to look at how individual firms are performing. In this blog Sumit Dey-Chowdhury explains how these data, updated today, are produced and what they tell us about changes in the UK economy.
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Every year we at ONS publish our UK natural capital accounts. These include an economic value of the benefits that…
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Net migration has fallen to the lowest level seen since 2021, when pandemic lockdown restrictions ended and the new immigration…
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Earlier this year we announced we will be using newly-developed questions to measure domestic abuse in the Crime Survey for…
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