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Listening, learning and looking to the future

In his first week as the UK’s National Statistician, André Loranger reflects on what he has learned from a career in official ...
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Supporting the health of newborns with new data

Since 2010, both stillbirth rates and neonatal mortality were decreasing and by 2020, neonatal mortality had fallen by around ...
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A rise in domestic abuse estimates — but too soon to identify a trend

Domestic abuse can have devastating consequences yet often remains hidden. Our best measure for understanding the scale of this abuse is the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) with estimates ...
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Improved surveys and statistics delivering new insights on the UK economy

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 ...
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Two years on: how death certification reform is shaping mortality data

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. In September 2024, the ...
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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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Making children’s voices count: a new approach to the crime survey

Ensuring children’s voices are represented in our statistics is essential for building a better understanding of their lives and the risks they face. The Children’s Crime Survey for England and Wales ...
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How the ONS is improving its measure of GDP

Every year the ONS improves its estimate of the size of and growth in the UK economy – known as GDP – by including new data sources and updating methods. Craig McLaren explains how these numbers have ...
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Managing the trade-off between timeliness and accuracy in producing our best estimates of GDP

GDP revisions are often reported, but how much do users understand why revisions are a necessary part of the evolution of the GDP dataset? Andrew Walton and Sumit Dey-Chowdhury explain the compilation ...
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How the ONS measures productivity

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 ...