Three years ago we launched Visual.ONS, a Beta website designed to experiment with new forms of digital storytelling. Darren Waters explains why ONS has embraced visual journalism, why the Visual beta is ending and what happens next.
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As ONS continues to develop its recommendations for questions in the 2021 Census, work has also started on how to best present the answers. As a national consultation exercise gets under way, Suzanne Dunsmith explains why everyone with an interest in 2021 data needs to take part.
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In February 2017 ONS funded the establishment of a new independent research centre, the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE). Its objective is to bring economic research closer to the production of economic statistics and identify new ways to address the fast-paced changes observed in the UK economy. Richard Heys explains.
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The latest ONS figures show a small decline in net migration. It’s due mainly to a large fall in EU net migration with fewer EU citizens coming here to work. But as Jay Lindop explains you don’t have to look back too far to see when migration last looked like this.
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ONS recently published estimates of the total value of all the assets held in the UK, known as the ‘National Balance Sheet’. This recent publication showed that the total value of all the assets was a staggeringly large £9.8 trillion (that is £9,800,000,000,000). Here, Dan Groves looks at what contributes into this headline number and what can make it go up and down over time.
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