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Inclusive Income: How the ONS is moving beyond GDP

Richard Heys
June 9, 2023

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

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As well as producing high-quality economic analysis and statistics, the ONS has been working on radical plans to go ‘beyond GDP’. This work includes new and innovative metrics reflecting the impact of economic change on people and the environment. Richard Heys introduces the new measure of ‘Inclusive Growth’, and explains what it says about how our lives and environment are changing.

Local Data for Local People: How new data sources are helping to calibrate communities

Statistically Speaking
May 9, 2023

Categories: Data, Economy, ONS, ONS Local, Public Policy

In this episode of Statistically Speaking we shine the spotlight on local data and look at how good statistics for small areas make for better targeted policy interventions, and more effective use of valuable public resources.

Transforming R&D statistics on Government-funded research & development

Heather Bovill
April 17, 2023

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

We have already blogged about how the UK’s statistics on research and development (R&D) are the subject of a programme of fundamental transformation. We are improving our main survey to capture a much wider group of businesses to better reflect the true extent of R&D undertaken in the UK. Now we also improving our measurement of R&D undertaken by the UK government and its agencies. Heather Bovill talks about how we are improving these estimates of what R&D the government is paying for and, importantly, where it is taking place.

The ‘R’ Word: What exactly is a ‘recession’ anyway?

Statistically Speaking
February 20, 2023

Categories: Business, Economy, Environment, Public Policy, Recession, Wellbeing

News headlines this month proclaimed the UK has ‘narrowly avoided recession’. In ‘Recessions, GDP and Beyond’, the latest episode of our ‘Statistically Speaking’ podcast, we decode the ‘r’ word and explain why this sometimes misleading term is one the ONS is often cautious to avoid.

What matters most to people in the UK and has that changed over time?

Liz McKeown
February 10, 2023

Categories: Data, Economy, Environment, ONS, Population, Public Policy, Wellbeing

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Since 2011, the ONS has been measuring ‘National Well-being’ to evaluate how we are doing as a nation. National Well-being includes the things that people have told us matter most to them, across the environment, society and economy. Here Liz McKeown looks at our GDP & Beyond work, focusing on responses to our recent online survey reviewing how we measure National Well-being.