It’s more than two years since death certification underwent a major reform. In this blog, David Mais reviews what impact these changes have had on our mortality statistics. Ensuring children’s voices ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Every year hundreds of innovative projects are completed by authorised researchers granted secure access to anonymised ONS survey data. Director of Methods, Data and Research, Sarah Henry believes ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

There has been a lot of focus recently on labour productivity, which looks at how much is produced for each hour worked across the economy. Richard Heys explains the different measures the ONS ...

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.

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 ...