Restoring Confidence, Improving Quality: Our plans for economic statistics and ONS surveys

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Restoring Confidence, Improving Quality: Our plans for economic statistics and ONS surveys

We recognise that in recent years some of our key economic statistics have not met users’ expectations on quality and trustworthiness. Today we have published two detailed plans to urgently improve the quality of our key economic outputs and the surveys underpinning them. As Acting Director General for Economic Statistics Grant Fitzner explains, these include improvements in data collection and statistical production and address underlying resourcing issues to add resilience for the future.      

More than just numbers: How ONS connects with users of population statistics

Categories: Census, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population
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Without high-quality population statistics, making good decisions on resource allocation and proper planning for public services is almost impossible.  But we know that producing statistics that are robust and reliable relies on us truly understanding the needs of people using them, and responding to those needs. Rich Pereira explains how we engage with our users to do this.

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Global journeys: estimating international migration

Categories: Data, migration, ONS, Population

Migration is one of the most talked about issues in the UK today—and at the ONS, our job is to measure it. In our next Bringing Data to Life webinar, taking place on Tuesday 22 July from 4pm to 5pm, we’ll take you behind the numbers to show exactly how we estimate international migration, what the latest data are telling us, and why the figures sometimes change.  

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Data linkage to shine new light on UK labour market

Categories: ONS
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Data from surveys and from ‘administrative’ sources – such as tax data – can both offer important insight. Recently the ONS has been advancing its work on ‘data linkage’, which allows the information from different data sources to be combined to create new economic indicators. In this post Christina Palmou writes about how the linking of ONS of business survey records with PAYE data from HMRC is helping to create a richer picture of the UK Labour Market 

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