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 ...

Today the ONS has published the latest data from its Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), which provides critical insights about the earnings of employees in the UK and informs decisions, such ...

Sumit Dey-Chowdhury is Deputy Chief Economist at the Office for National Statistics.

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 ...

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 ...

Liz McKeown and Daniel Ayoubkhani explain what we have learned so far and how this work contributes to our broader efforts to build a more coherent picture of the labour market using surveys, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on the retail sector with many stores forced to close at the height of lockdown. During that time consumers switched their spending to online. As Rhys ...

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 ...