Building momentum to deliver further improvements to the quality of our core statistics is the big focus for the Office for National Statistics as we enter the new year. ONS Director General of Surveys and Economic Statistics James Benford looks ahead to some of the planned changes that are due to be rolled out this year to improve the quality of key economic statistics.
The Office for National Statistics has today announced the final ‘Go’ decision for the introduction of supermarket scanner data into consumer inflation statistics. It represents a step change in our measurement of consumer prices. Mike Hardie explains how this new approach improves the calculation of these crucial statistics.
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Late last summer, Darren Tierney stepped into the newly created role of Permanent Secretary at a pivotal moment for the organisation. In a new episode of Statistically Speaking our host Miles Fletcher sits down with Darren to talk about what happens next.
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For a few years now the ONS has been going beyond its traditional measures of productivity to look at how individual firms are performing. In this blog Sumit Dey-Chowdhury explains how these data, updated today, are produced and what they tell us about changes in the UK economy.
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Every year we at ONS publish our UK natural capital accounts. These include an economic value of the benefits that…
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Net migration has fallen to the lowest level seen since 2021, when pandemic lockdown restrictions ended and the new immigration…
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