National Statistical

Helping businesses to help ONS – making data submission easier and faster

Jamie Trollope
February 22, 2017

Categories: Data

ONS statistics are relied on by central and local government, businesses and individuals to make important decisions and plan for the future. To make sure they remain accurate and relevant, we need to gather timely and detailed information that captures the whole economy and the fortunes of businesses large and small. Now we want to give businesses more of a say in how our systems are designed.

Official statistics in a “post truth” era

Danny Langley
February 17, 2017

Categories: ONS

If this is a ‘post-truth’ era, when was the ‘truth’ era? That was one of the questions posed at a recent panel discussion hosted by the Royal Statistical Society to consider whether we really are in a post-truth world of ‘alternative facts’, and if so what we can do about it.

Guardian profile shines light on inflation foot soldiers

Luke Croydon
February 16, 2017

Categories: ONS

This week the Guardian carried an interesting report on the process of compiling all the prices needed to calculate inflation. Economics Correspondent Katie Allen followed one of 300 price collectors, Brenda Cleaver, who gathers many of the 180,000 prices of 700 items on behalf of ONS.

Starting a fascinating data career in the 21st Century

Categories: ONS

If you have missed the government drive to increase apprentices across all sectors and industries then you may have missed the slogan “get in, go far”. Gareth Clancy explains how you can get in and go far as an apprentice at the Office for National Statistics.

Keeping the census relevant in a changing world

Ian Cope
February 8, 2017

Categories: Census, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population

In an era when ‘national treasures’ come and go, it’s rare to find something that’s earned the public’s trust and affection generation after generation. But every 10 years, residents in England and Wales take the time to participate in the census. Ian Cope explains how we’re already planning for 2021.