National Statistical

In the middle of 2020, the UK Statistics Authority embarked on its new five- year strategy, “Statistics for the Public Good”.  Launched at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the statistical system has since gone above and beyond to ensure the country has the data it needs now and in years immediately ahead.  In this post Professor Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician, reflects on how far the Office for National Statistics and the UK Statistics Authority has come and what’s coming next.

The pandemic has affected many of the figures that the ONS publishes – both in terms of ‘real world’ changes…

New data sources have been key to much of the recent progress at the Office for National Statistics (ONS). During…