Launch of new cross-government Integrated Data Service (BETA): net zero and regional growth top the agenda

Categories: ONS

Throughout the past year the Office for National Statistics has been pioneering the use of new data and methods to produce important new insights to help tackle the impact of COVID-19. Today we continue to reshape and improve ways of working with the launch of the first stage of the new Integrated Data Service. The new service maximises the use and benefits of data for analysts in government, devolved administrations, and external researchers.

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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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