The ONS doesn’t just produce the UK’s most important numbers. Making sense of data is central to our mission too. Miles Fletcher looks back at how impartial ONS expertise again helped the UK’s major news broadcasters to find and interpret statistics in the 2019 General Election.
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In the Monty Python classic Life of Brian, the (misheard) saying “blessed are the cheesemakers” is “not meant to be…
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2019 was another big year for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), filled with better data, new headlines and exciting…
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It’s an American import that in just a few years has changed our traditional shopping habits in the pre-Christmas period. Now it looks like ‘Black Friday’ is here to stay. Rhian Murphy explains how the ONS takes account of the impact of ‘Black Friday’ when compiling the UK’s most comprehensive and influential retail statistics.
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Access to new sources of data is helping the ONS to produce quicker and more detailed economic indicators. Now, working with HM Revenue and Customs, we have for the first time jointly published estimates of employees and earnings based on monthly real-time tax information. David Freeman explains what these new data give us and how they fit into the ongoing transformation of UK economics statistics.
Read more on No half measures: using tax data to monitor jobs and pay better
