The latest episode of the Statistically Speaking podcast reveals how the ONS is now measuring UK consumer price inflation with data gathered from supermarket checkouts. Our guests explain why it’s a step change in the production of this vital economic indicator that broadens our understanding of the real cost of the living.
Read more on Supermarket Sweep: Measuring inflation with billion of bleeps
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.
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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
