Tina Thomas, Deputy Director for Social Survey Field Collection, explains how a compelling BBC plot device does not reflect how ONS surveys operate in real life, and reminds us of how our interviewers are at the heart of what we do.
Read more on Separating fact from fiction: how the ‘industry’ of survey collection is far more than a BBC plot device
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.
Read more on How firm-level data improves our understanding of productivity
Every year we at ONS publish our UK natural capital accounts. These include an economic value of the benefits that…
Read more on Natural cooling: how we are better measuring the local value of nature for urban cooling
There has been debate recently about which source of information on jobs and working patterns should be used to best…
Read more on Productivity – balancing different approaches on how to measure it
Join us on Tuesday 21st October for the next instalment of the ‘Bringing Data to Life’ webinar series and discover how we’re using a variety of linked data to better understand the interplay between health and work, with the goal of improving the wellbeing of individuals and the economy.
Read more on Bringing data to life: The link between health and wealth
