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Two economic policy challenges walk into a bar. One says to the other: ‘Are we related?’

Philip Wales
July 6, 2018

Categories: Economy, ONS

On any ranking, devising new trade policy for after Brexit and solving the productivity puzzle must be among the biggest economic policy challenges facing the UK. Following the latest ONS labour productivity release, Philip Wales highlights new work that shows how trade and productivity are closely related.

Monthly GDP: More information, faster

James Scruton
July 4, 2018

Categories: ONS

Next week, ONS is making an important improvement to the way it publishes GDP figures. James Scruton explains why this change is taking place and how it will give policy makers access to more data, quicker.

Minding the gap: how we’re improving our measurement of income inequality

Dominic Webber
June 20, 2018

Categories: Economy, ONS

ONS publishes widely used estimates of household income, including how much people earn, what benefits they receive and how much they pay in taxes as well as looking at the gap between the richest and poorest households. Here Dominic Webber writes about the important work to improve the quality of these statistics and provide more detailed information on this much debated topic.

Grinding to a halt. Is the growth in life expectancy coming to an end?

Chris White
June 18, 2018

Categories: ONS

Mortality rates have been falling and life expectancy rising since the inception of these statistics in the mid-19th century. However, recent reports suggest these improvements may be coming to an end. Here, statistician Chris White looks at what the most recent evidence tells us.

Calling all economic experts: do you have what it takes to become an ONS Fellow?

Fiona Dawe
June 15, 2018

Categories: Data, Office for National Statistics, ONS

For the last two years ONS has been assisted in its important work measuring the fast-changing UK economy by its…