Permanent Secretary, Darren Tierney, discusses how the ONS will continue to strengthen the quality, timeliness and resilience of its statistics, with its new three-year Business Plan.
Read more on Securing the future of ONS statistics: What we’ve achieved and what comes next
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
This month UN secretary general António Guterres called on the international community to “go beyond gross domestic product as a measure of human progress and wellbeing.” In fact for some years now, the ONS has been going far beyond traditional measures of the economy – including GDP – by introducing statistics which seek to measure national well-being. Today we are introducing a new, streamlined framework for reporting these metrics. Here Richard Heys sets out this new approach.
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Permanent Secretary Darren Tierney sets out the next steps the ONS is taking to prioritise quality and strengthen core statistical outputs.
Read more on Refocusing the ONS on its core statistics
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
