Office for National Statistics (ONS) launches new data strategy Fiona James, Chief Data Officer and Director, Data Growth and Operations…
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The data gathered by large economic surveys remain a vital component of many key Office for National Statistics figures, especially those on the labour market. Maintaining good survey response rates is a challenge faced by national statistical institutes worldwide. In this post Darren Morgan sets out how the ONS is addressing this issue and tapping alternative sources for the important information we need.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer recently asked the National Statistician to review its measures of public sector productivity. Grant Fitzner writes about how this work is progressing and why measuring public service productivity is more challenging than other areas of the economy.
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Social surveys offer immense and uniquely valuable insights into the lives of people up and down the country, and those…
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For the first time the ONS has published new data on UK Direct Debits. This new, fast and anonymised data source provides insight on consumer payments to most of the UK’s largest companies. Dragos Cozma describes how the ONS has developed this new data source with our partners at Vocalink and Pay.UK and what it tells us about the UK economy.
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