Posts by Becca Briggs

Producing the best estimates of changing household wealth  

Categories: Data, Economy, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Surveys
Image of house with money piles in it

Wealth in Great Britain is one of the ONS’s key economic publications, biennially reporting on the level of wealth and how it is held, including the value of homes, how much is owed in debt and the value of pensions. It is derived from results from the Wealth and Assets Survey. Recently the ONS has updated how it estimates the value of pension wealth. Becca Briggs explains how and why the numbers have been updated.  

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Giving the best picture of international migration in times of a pandemic

Categories: migration, ONS, Population
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A significant economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the disruption to worldwide travel. The ONS has now produced its initial report on what happened to migration and mobility patterns in the first six months of the pandemic.  Here Rebecca Briggs explains the findings and updates on our progress towards a new and fundamentally different approach to measuring UK migration.    

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