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Building a clearer picture of the labour market by integrating survey and administrative data

Liz McKeown and Daniel Ayoubkhani explain what we have learned so far and how this work contributes to our broader efforts to ...
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What exactly is PSNFL?: Explaining the new headline target for government debt

Today, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that the Government will use a broader definition of debt for its fiscal target, Public Sector Net Financial Liabilities (PSNFL), referred to by ...
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Measuring labour productivity: our new approach

Today the ONS has published a research paper setting out an improved approach to estimating labour productivity that uses the best aspects of our various measures of the labour market. The new ...
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Painting the full picture: what our statistics tell us about the labour market

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 ...
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Creating the best picture of changes in the labour market – an update

The ONS is transitioning to better methods of data collection fit for the digital age. The changes in progress mean some temporary disruption as traditional surveys are updated or replaced. In this ...
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How we adjust GDP to remove seasonal effects

There has been recent interest in seasonal patterns in the UK economy and how they are evolving. James Benford writes about the work taking place at the ONS to ensure they continue to be accurately ...
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An evolving picture of UK population change

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 ...
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Improving the visibility of older people in global statistics

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 ...
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Public sector or private sector: How the ONS decides – and why it matters

Part of the role of the Office for National Statistics is to assess whether various organisations should be considered part of the public or private sector for statistical purposes. These important ...
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How do we measure expected and excess deaths?

There has been widespread interest in the number of excess deaths across the UK. That is, the difference between the actual number of deaths observed and the number that was expected. But how do you ...
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Direct Debits data reveal fresh economic insights

For the first time the ONS has published new data on UK Direct Debits. This new, fast and anonymised data source provides insight on consumer payments to most of the UK’s largest companies. Dragos ...
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Mental Health of Children and Young People in the Pandemic

Today, NHS Digital – in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics, NatCen Social Research, University of Cambridge and University of Exeter – has published research on the effect of the ...