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.

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 pandemic has affected many of the figures that the ONS publishes – both in terms of ‘real world’ changes to society and the economy, and also in the picture that our standard metrics can give.

The COVID-19 pandemic heightened interest in patterns and levels of ‘excess’ deaths, typically defined as deaths over the number that might be expected to occur in an ‘average’ year. But with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is continuing interest in the apparent disparities between the UK’s official statistics on trade and those produced by the European Union (EU), which have increased since the end of the Brexit ...