National Statistical

As we head towards the end of a very challenging year, analytical directors, Liz McKeown and Darren Morgan reflect on the huge efforts put in by colleagues at the ONS to maintain, improve and develop new high-quality statistics on a scale never seen before.

There has been much debate about ONS’s range of inflation indices and differing uses for them. One of the less talked about measures are the Household Cost Indices (HCIs), which show the impact of price changes on household budgets. Here Chris Payne writes about their development and what they can tell us.

It was only ten years ago today that the United Nations agreed there should be an “International Day of Older People”. While social care is not limited to older people, it is an issue of widespread relevance in an ageing population.  Here Sophie John, ONS Head of Social Care Analysis, explains the work being done to identify and address gaps in data that could help inform our understanding of adult social care.

Today the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is launching a new interactive tool to allow people to access a range of COVID-19 data, graphs and data visualisations in one place.  In this blog, Ruth Studley explains what this includes and how it is different to other tools already produced by the ONS.