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GDP beyond the bottom line: measuring what matters most
In this blog, Yente, a regulator in the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)’s Economy, Business and Trade domain, summarises a…
Office for Statistics Regulation Reports on Treatment of Seasonality in Quarterly GDP Statistics
A review by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has examined a persistent pattern in recent GDP data, with stronger…
Beyond GDP? Yes – but how far?
In our latest blog, OSR’s Jonathan Price introduces his recently published think piece on value and GDP.
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View all correspondence posts about Economy and Public FinancesLiz McKeown and Sarah Henry to Rob Kent-Smith: Review of ONS’s Treatment of Seasonality in Quarterly GDP statistics
Dear Rob, Thank you for your letter of 17th March outlining the findings and recommendations of your recent ‘Review of ONS’s Treatment of Seasonality in quarterly GDP’ and for your team’s engagement with ours throughout the review period. We welcome…
Rob Kent-Smith to Liz McKeown and Sarah Henry: Review of ONS’s Treatment of Seasonality in Quarterly GDP statistics
Dear Liz and Sarah Today we published our Review of ONS’s Treatment of Seasonality in quarterly GDP. This review was prompted by concerns from some users, and media commentators, about the effectiveness of seasonal adjustment in the post pandemic period. In recent years, quarterly…
Ed Humpherson to Rachel Skentelbery: Alternative Release Time for all future UK Economic Accounts (UKEA) publications
Dear Rachel, Thank you for your letter requesting an alternative release time for future publications of the UK Economic Accounts (UKEA) datasets. We understand that the current arrangements involve releasing aggregated data at 07:00 as part of the Balance of Payments and Sector Accounts publications. We also…
Rachel Skentelbery to Ed Humpherson: Alternative Release Time for all future UK Economic Accounts (UKEA) publications
Dear Ed, I am writing to formally request an alternative release time for all future releases of UKEA datasets. The UKEA dataset provides a further breakdown of other datasets published at 7:00am in our Balance of Payments and Sector Accounts publications. Within these further breakdowns are country levels, which have been a…