From playground surveys to video guides, Professor Sir Ian Diamond explains how the ONS is boosting its efforts to get…
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In the latest episode of Statistically Speaking we explore how the ONS measures our natural environment and the green economy….
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They may be based on huge datasets calculated with the most robust methodologies, but nearly all important statistics are…
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Back in March 2020, life changed very suddenly as COVID-19 struck. In the first days of lockdown the ONS set up what it thought would be a temporary rapid business survey to assess how the pandemic was impacting UK businesses. Gemma Rabaiotti explains how four years and 100 waves of responses later, the Business Impact of Coronavirus survey– now renamed the Business Insights and Conditions survey – (BICS) has cemented its place as a timely and vital voice on the challenges facing businesses today.
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