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Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on UK population

Categories: ONS

The Office for National Statistics is working to assess the impact of the pandemic on the UK population. Crucial to this will be understanding how international migration has changed over the past 12 months. Becca Briggs, David Freeman and Rich Pereira explain how the ONS is meeting the challenge and what that means for our population, migration and labour market statistics.   

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Nice one CHAPS: how Bank of England card data are telling us more about consumer spending

Categories: Coronavirus, Data, Economy, ONS

The pandemic has had such an impact on our everyday lives – movement restrictions, store closures, panic buying and people occupying more time at home have all influenced our spending patterns and consumer behaviour. David Matthewson explains how, for the first time, the ONS will publish credit and debit card transaction data from the Bank of England that will give us more detailed information on how we have been spending our money over the last twelve months.  

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The virus, the vaccine and GDP: Measuring healthcare through the pandemic

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Hospital corridor

Measuring the work of public services has probably never been as challenging as in recent months, with many services being reduced due to the pandemic while new services, such as track and trace, have been brought on stream to combat it. Here Jonathan Athow writes about how we have adjusted our previous estimates and how we expanding our statistics to include these new types of services. 

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