Data

African Statistics Day: How the ONS is supporting better statistics across Africa and the developing world

Categories: Data
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The ONS works internationally to help make key statistics useful, accurate and globally comparable. To mark African Statistics Day, Emily Poskett takes a look back at key achievements in supporting statistical organisations on the continent and beyond to modernise African statistics and improve evidence-based decision-making for the public good.

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Keeping track of the testing, tracing and vaccination programmes: How we’re including the pandemic response in GDP

Categories: Coronavirus, Data, Economy

The policy response to the pandemic required ONS to record and measure lots of new types of economic activity, such as the test, trace and vaccination programmes. Philip Wales looks at how we are ensuring their impact on the economy will be properly measured.

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