Today we are publishing the latest quarterly update on our Surveys and Economic Statistics Improvement Plan. James Benford ...

Sumit Dey-Chowdhury is Deputy Chief Economist at the Office for National Statistics.

Today we are publishing the latest quarterly update on our Surveys and Economic Statistics Improvement Plan. James Benford looks back at some of the important improvements delivered in the last ...

What does an air fryer, a loaf of bread and vinyl records have in common? Well, these are just a few of the items tracked by the ONS to help us determine how the prices of a wide range of goods and ...

Liz McKeown and Daniel Ayoubkhani explain what we have learned so far and how this work contributes to our broader efforts to ...

Measuring the full economic impact of Covid-19 is a key challenge for the ONS. Some have questioned why the decline we’ve identified in UK GDP is greater than that being reported by oth ...

On Monday we published a short blog on the linkages between the labour market statistics and estimates of population here. But there has also been interest in how our statistics describing the labour ...

The Office for National Statistics has been working to better understand the impact of an ageing population on society. In today’s blog, Rich Pereira gives us the latest insights into our elderly ...

Currently, the data on people who self-fund their care is limited. With differences in how data is collected in local authorities and by care providers, there is a significant gap in understanding how ...

Our immediate next steps will focus on refining these methods, extending our use of RAPID data to include UK nationals and working closely with the Home Office as data on EU nationals becomes ...