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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our household spending reports are now celebrating their diamond jubilee. Here Joanna Bulman, who heads the ONS Family Spending team, explains what’s changed down the years – and a little of what hasn ...

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 ...

Eradicating forced labour, and ending human trafficking, are two key parts of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Professor Sir Bernard Silverman is a leading academic and public servant who has ...

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 ...

Knowing the exact number of people whose death involved coronavirus (COVID-19) is of great importance, but it’s not a simple question. Sarah Caul introduces the provisional new figures published on 31 ...