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Down your way: working towards more localised data on public sector spending

Jessica Barnaby
June 29, 2023

Categories: Economy, ONS, Public Policy

Since we introduced the country and regional public sector finances data in 2017, further opportunities have emerged to use alternative data sources to make these statistics more timely. Moreover, data sources and production techniques can help increase the granularity of geographical breakdowns. In this post we look at some improvements we’re working on.

PODCAST: The Year in Review

Statistically Speaking
December 21, 2022

Categories: Census, Data, Economy, Environment, Health, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population, Public Policy, Wellbeing

It has been another momentous year for the Office for National Statistics. National Statistician, Sir Ian Diamond, joins Miles in…

Our digital journey: moving to electronic questionnaires

Categories: ONS

Earlier this year we shared news about the Retail Sales Inquiry (RSI) – the monthly national survey of shops and shopping – moving to digital data collection. ONS is transforming the way it collects data, improving the speed and quality of the information while reducing the burden on respondents. Here, Jason Bradbury reflects on the achievements and challenges of the journey so far.

Civil Servants get lessons in better use of data

Owen Abbott
July 25, 2017

Categories: Data, ONS

With the Civil Service Live events over for another year, Owen Abbott, Head of Big Data at ONS explains how his team’s attendance sparked a curiosity around data science.