Everybody’s heard about the GERD – measuring measures R&D spending at ONS

Categories: ONS

Investing in research and development (R&D) is one of the key ways that businesses can improve their competitiveness and increase their productivity, an important driver of growth. Here, Office for National Statistics’s (ONS) Deputy National Statistician for Economic Statistics Jonathan Athow looks at the importance of R&D and how the ONS goes about capturing it in its figures, which it publishes in its Gross domestic expenditure on research and development (GERD) release.

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Basket of Goods 2019 – measuring inflation and tracking changing consumer trends

Categories: Data, Economy, Office for National Statistics, ONS

It’s that time of year when the ONS updates its famous ‘Basket of Goods and Services’. This time around there’s some notable additions and removals, which once again help to underline changing consumer purchasing behaviour.

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Beware the Ides of March? ONS data reveals which month we are really most likely to die in.   

Categories: Data, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population, Public Policy

A spate of news stories has claimed that March is one of the ‘deadliest’ months with more deaths occurring over the past five years than in most other months. But as Sarah Caul explains, those numbers don’t quite add up.

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