On 21 and 22 February, around 200 delegates gathered in Newport – the home of UK economic statistics – for the inaugural international ONS conference on measuring the modern economy.
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As part of ONS’s transformation plans we’re working to introduce new sources of data that will help improve the quality, detail and timeliness of the UK’s key economic statistics.
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The new Data Science Campus development (pic) taking shape at Newport symbolises the fundamental change happening across ONS. Here Frankie Kay gives a progress report on the modernisation of the economic statistics Newport produces.
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Jonathan Athow writes about including owner occupier housing costs in consumer price inflation and explains why ONS has decided…
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Senior ONS statistician Pete Lee has been helping to strengthen Zimbabwe’s economic data. It’s part of an international commitment to give…
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