Economic, environment and society statistics events

ONS Local Presents

ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to support evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful events that connect our users with exciting developments happening in subnational statistics.

• Thursday 19 December 2024 – ONS Local Workshop: Exploring ESRI tools

Please visit Eventbrite for further information or to register for our ONS Local presents online events.

ONS Economic Forum

At these monthly events we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics, economic issues and updates on economic transformation projects. Each month we will feature “State of the Economy”, providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

Regional ONS Economic Forums

Throughout the year we will be visiting different regions over the country. The forums will present the current state of the UK economy including data and analysis for your region. There is also an opportunity to hear about economic statistics transformation on a national and local level.

ESWG Expert Seminars

The Economic Statistics Working Group (ESWG) comprises nominees of the Royal Economic Society (RES), the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the Society for Professional Economists (SPE) and the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE). ESWG creates and oversees a programme of expert seminars aimed at improving the quality and understanding of economic measurement, broadly defined to include measurement of economic stocks and flows, including in the service and digital economies, economic inequality, well-being etc.

Labour Market statistics update

Date: 3 December 2024
Time: 9:30am to 10:30am
Platform: Microsoft Teams

On 3 December we will be publishing articles on re-weighting and labour market transformation. To accompany these, we are holding a webinar to discuss progress and planned improvements. During this event you will have the opportunity to hear about ongoing work to re-weight our Labour Force Survey (LFS) and productivity estimates. Additionally, we will provide an update on the Transformed Labour Force Survey (TLFS) and developments with the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and Annual Population Survey (APS).

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 25 November 2024
Time: 9:30am to 10:30am
Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy
• Trends in the UK Labour Share
• Drivers of the change in GDP per head in the UK

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Subnational Data Conference: Supporting local decision making

Date: 14 November 2024
Time: 9:00am to 3:30pm
Platform: In person at Leeds University or via Microsoft Teams

Join us at our subnational data conference at the University of Leeds to celebrate what we have delivered at the end of our 3-year joint Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and ONS local data and insight project partnership.

This hybrid event offers a unique opportunity to hear from a variety of speakers about how local evidence can inform a range of local policy decisions, through new and innovative analyses, tools and data. This conference will be a two-way discussion, to gather insight on priorities for multiple local data users and producers, to inform the Government Statistical Service (GSS) subnational data strategy and help shape the future of local data within the ONS. This event will also provide the opportunity to network with other local data users.

Annual Crime and Justice Statistics Forum

Date: 7 November 2024

Time: 10:00am to 12:00pm

Platform: Microsoft Teams

The Annual Crime and Justice Statistics Forum provides users of crime and justice statistics an opportunity to engage with experts, discuss the future of our statistics, and foster future collaboration.

We'll have an opening address to open the forum, then our panel of experts from ONS and across Government will give their thoughts on the latest updates to measuring crime and justice across the UK.

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 21 October 2024

Time: 9:30am to 10:45am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy
• Public Sector Management Practices Survey
• Public Sector Time Use Survey

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 23 September 2024

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy

• Understanding skill and qualification suitability in the labour market

• Labour demand volumes by Standard Occupation Classification

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Measuring the economy, taking on latest data

Date: 30 September 2024

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

The ONS will publish its latest estimates of UK Gross Domestic Product along with Balance of Payments incorporating trade data on 30 September 2024. We will be hosting a webinar after the releases to provide an overview of the published data and explain the background to the recently announced revisions of economic growth from our Blue Book and Pink Book changes.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 22 July 2024

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy

• Household finances and savings

• Firm employment dynamics in local economies

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 13 May 2024

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy

• Management Expectation Survey

• Public Sector Net Debt

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 22 April 2024

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics. Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy

• Geographical mobility of young people across English towns and cities

• Recent trends in UK trade volumes and balances

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Developing estimates of depletion for the UK natural capital accounts

Date: 21 March 2023

Time: 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Platform: Microsoft Teams

The ONS Natural Capital Accounts team present on developing estimates of depletion for the UK natural capital accounts.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 18 March 2024

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics. Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy
• The role of owner-occupier housing costs in the Household Cost Indices
• Progress and Insights from the Research and Development Statistics transformation

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Insights from the Research and Development statistics transformation

Date: 27 February 2024

Time: 11:00am to 12:15pm

Platform: Microsoft Teams

This webinar will explain the Business Enterprise Research and Development (BERD) Statistics released earlier in the day. Over the last two years we've been transforming the collection, methods and processes that go into producing our BERD statistics to ensure we can provide robust and detailed measures of R&D activity. This will give users a chance to hear first hand about these exciting changes, as well as the data headlines and additional insight including sector analysis.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 19 February 2024

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy

• International Comparisons of Inflation

• Labour Force Survey and Labour Market Update

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 22 January 2024

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy

• Average hours worked and economic growth

• Trends in trade since 2016

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 11 December 2023

Time: 9:30am to 10:45am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy

• Trends in UK business dynamism and productivity

• System of National Accounts 2025

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Household Costs Indices Events

Date: 4 December 2023

Platform: Microsoft Teams

On 4 December we will launch our new quarterly Household Costs Indices (HCIs) bulletin.

The HCIs will show how changing prices and costs affect different household groups, from lower and higher incomes, to retired householders, renters and homeowners. The events are an opportunity to hear about the insights that HCIs provide, and how they can be used alongside the ONS’s range of consumer price statistics.

These events will be online, are free to attend, and you can sign-up the one that best suits you or as many of them as you would like to. The events are listed below.

9:30am to 10:45am: Launching new quarterly Household Costs Indices

This event is for stakeholders and users of consumer price inflation statistics.

2pm to 3pm: ONS Explainer: Using our inflation data to understand different households' cost of living

This explainer event is for people new to consumer price inflation statistics and who would like to find out more.

3:30pm to 4:30pm: What are the Household Costs Indices and how do they differ from CPI?

This event is for analysts and specialist users of inflation data.

ESCoE Economic Measurement webinar programme

30 November 2023, 12:00pm to 1:15pm – "Evaluating the Success of an Economy: Basic Human Needs and Wellbeing", presented by Michael Joffe (Imperial College London)

14 December 2023, 12:00pm to 1.15pm – "Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space", presented by Stephen Hansen (University College London)

7 March 2024 – Multidimensional Hardships in the United States during the Covid-19 Pandemic Presented by Shatakshee Dhongde, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology

21 March 2024 – Depletion and degradation in the UK Natural Capital Accounts Presented by Aram Hawa, Senior Research Officer, Office for National Statistics

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 13 November 2023

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy
• Gross Domestic Product and welfare
• Insights from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

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Urban Natural Capital Accounts Seminar

Date: 24 October 2023

Time: 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Platform: Microsoft Teams

The ONS Natural Capital team will be hosting an online seminar to discuss the recent Urban Natural Capital Accounts publication and its estimates of the value of urban natural capital on Tuesday 24 October 2023.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 16 October 2023

Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy
• The role of labour costs and profits in UK inflation
• Experimental estimates of green jobs and provisional estimates of greenhouse gas emissions

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Beyond GDP: what matters to measuring progress

The ONS is hosting a series of events with the Royal Statistical Society to discuss work under way on metrics, which can be used to provide a holistic measure of how the country is doing. You can attend these events in-person or online. The events are:

• Beyond GDP: international developments and emerging frameworks – Tuesday 26 September, 1:30pm View slides

• GDP after 2025: updating national accounts and balance of payments – Wednesday 11 October, 2:00pm View slides

• So what does 'Beyond GDP' mean for the UK? – Thursday 12 October 9:30am View slides

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 18 September 2023
Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy
• Persistence in consumer price inflation
• Changes in labour costs and prices

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 17 July 2023
Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, where we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK economy
• Changes in time-use of economically active v economically inactive populations
• Impact of increased cost of living

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Family finance surveys user conference 2023

Date: 10 July 2023
Time: 10:00am to 4:00pm

Platform: Microsoft Teams

Are you interested in research on family finances? Do you want to know the latest developments in family finance data from UK social surveys? This online annual conference will provide latest updates from the teams behind key UK surveys on family finances and current research presentations based on analyses of the data.

More information about this event is available.

Beyond GDP: what matters to national well-being

Date: 5 July 2023
Time: 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Venue:
Royal Statistical Society
12 Errol Street (near to the Barbican Centre)
London
EC1Y 8LX

Virtual platform: Microsoft Teams

At the ONS, we have been reviewing measures on what matters most to well-being in the UK.

We invite you to join us as we present the findings from our review report, alongside brand-new data from our updated set of indicators on how the UK is doing on health, well-being, the environment, and other important areas for our quality of life.

The National Statistician Professor Sir Ian Diamond, along with range of experts, will discuss the new findings, with a panel discussion about measuring what matters most to people in the UK.

This event is just the first in a wider seminar series, organised in partnership with the Royal Statistical Society and others, on measuring progress "beyond GDP".

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 12 June 2023
Time: 9:30am to 10:30am

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, which we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics.

Presentations include:

• Food and Energy Price Inflation in the UK
• How did the experiences of those who were studying for their GCSEs during the pandemic differ by income deprivation?
• State of the UK Economy

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Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) conference on economic measurement 2023

Date: 17 to 19 May 2023

Venue: King's Business School, King's College London

The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence will hold its annual conference, organised in partnership with the UK Office for National Statistics on 17 to 19 May 2023 at King's Business School, King's College London. This is an in-person event.

The conference is a meeting place for discussing recent research advances in economic measurement and statistics. The programme includes papers on many aspects of the measurement and use of economic statistics.

More information about this event is available.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 15 May 2023

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, which we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK Economy
• How is the average price of items changing over time?
• Measures of national well-being dashboard: Quality of life in the UK

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Annual Crime and Justice Statistics Forum 2023

Date: 11 May 2023

Platform: Microsoft Teams

Public Policy Analysis Forums are hosting our second Annual Crime and Justice Statistics Forum, which aims to provide users of crime and justice statistics an opportunity to engage with experts, share insights and discuss the future of our statistics and foster future collaboration.

The event will also be an opportunity to discuss the latest updates to crime and justice statistics with experts from across government, academia and the voluntary sector.

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ONS business data and statistics user event

Date: 19 April 2023

Platform: Microsoft Teams

Are you a user of Office for National Statistics (ONS) business statistics and data?

Do you want to know about plans to transform statistics and develop new research datasets?

This half day virtual event will be opened by ONS senior leaders, offering their perspective on ONS ambitions for business statistics.

Attendees will hear updates from the producers of key UK business surveys, data, statistics and projects, including:

• Annual Business Survey (ABS)

• Annual Purchases Survey (APS)

• Business Enterprise Research and Development (BERD) survey

• Government Research and Development (GovERD) survey

• Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS)

• Regional Gross Domestic Product

• Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) and transformation to the Statistics Business Register (SBR)

• Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and other linked business microdata

• Secure Research Service (SRS) and transformation to the Integrated Data Service (IDS)

More information about this event is available.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 17 April 2023

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, which we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics.

Presentations include:

• State of the UK Economy
• Energy intensity of Consumer Price Index (CPI)
• Changes in private rental sector behaviour, England, February 2022 to February 2023

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Do energy improvements pay for themselves in the housing market?

A micro-level hedonic comparison across England and Wales

Date: 23 March 2023

Speaker: Miriam Steurer, University of Graz

ESCoE Research Webinar

Platform: online

More information about this event is available.

Shaping the way ahead – the statistics for the public good strategy

Date: 22 March 2023

Venue: Great Ormond Street Hospital's DRIVE Centre, 40 Bernard Street, London, WC1N 1LE

Sir Robert Chote, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, would like you to join us at this event to celebrate the achievements from across the UK statistical system and to look forward as we reach the half way point of our strategy, Statistics for the public good.

We would like to hear your thoughts on the priority themes to focus on that will enable us to continue to meet the needs of our users and of citizens, as we refresh the strategy and set our direction towards 2025.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 13 March 2023

Platform: Microsoft Teams

We are hosting our next monthly economic forum, which we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics.

Presentations this month include:

• State of the UK economy
• The role of demand and supply factors in consumer price index (CPI) inflation
• Winter spending analysis
• Food and drink producer prices index analysis

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Measuring Human Capital in the UK Economic Accounts: An experimental satellite account

Date: Thursday 9 March 2023

Speaker: Robert Dunn, ONS

ESCoE Research Webinar

Platform: online

More information about this event is available.

The future of economic statistics

Date: 9 March 2023

Venue: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG

Driven by world events such the pandemic and social and technological change, the economy is changing. This lecture will explore what this means for the future of economic statistics.

National Statistician Professor Sir Ian Diamond will outline the ONS's vision for the transformation of economic statistics and how he sees the future.

The talk will cover a number of key topics including taking our classic economics outputs into the future as well as our commitment to quality and engagement with our users.

More information about this event is available.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 13 February 2023

Platform - Microsoft Teams

Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature 'State of the Economy', providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

Presentations this month include:

• The Terms of Trade: The Purchasing Power of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Consumer Price Index (CPI) rail fares and second-hand cars

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Transforming the ONS's household financial statistics - user event

Date: 17 January 2023

We are seeking views on our ambitious plans for the transformation of our household financial statistics.

These statistics cover the income, expenditure and wealth of UK households and are a vital source of information for understanding people's finances including the effects of the rising cost of living.

The consultation is open from 1 December 2022 to 23 February 2023.

This event is an opportunity for users of these statistics, and others with a keen interest, to hear directly about the development plans, to ask questions and to share thoughts about the uses and priorities for these key statistics.

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 19 December 2022

Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature 'State of the Economy', providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

Presentations this month include:

• Where Have the Workers Gone? Movements to Inactivity in the UK: 2019-2022

• Over 50s lifestyle study

• Subnational statistics analysis

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ONS Economic Forum – Cardiff

Fforwm Economaidd SYG – Caerdydd

Date: 7 December 2022 | 7 Rhagfyr 2022

Location | Lleoliad

Cathays Park, Welsh Government, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ

Parc Cathays, Llywodraeth Cymru, Rhodfa'r Brenin Edward VII, Caerdydd, CF10 3NQ

ONS Regional Economic Forum will present the current state of the UK economy and present data and analysis for Wales.

We will welcome guest speakers:

• Brendan Collins who will present on How has health and labour force participation in Wales been impacted by the pandemic?

• Professor Max Munday , Director of Welsh Economy Research Unit, Cardiff Business School who will present on Different inward investment models in the local economy: Some insights from the Compound Semiconductor sector.

• We are also delighted to welcome Stephanie Howarth, Chief Statistician, Welsh Government, who will be opening the forum.

Please note, The Economic Forum will be presented in English.

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Noder mai digwyddiad i chi ei fynychu'n bersonol yw hwn. Rhaid cofrestru.

Bydd Fforwm Economaidd Rhanbarthol y Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol (SYG) yn cyflwyno sefyllfa bresennol economi'r DU ac yn cyflwyno data a gwaith dadansoddi ar gyfer Cymru.

Byddwn yn croesawu siaradwyr gwadd:

• Brendan Collins, Pennaeth Economeg Iechyd, Llywodraeth Cymru a fydd yn cyflwyno Sut mae'r pandemig wedi effeithio ar iechyd a chyfranogiad yn y llafurlu yng Nghymru?

• Yr Athro Max Munday, Cyfarwyddwr Uned Ymchwil Economi Cymru, Ysgol Fusnes Caerdydd a fydd yn cyflwyno Modelau mewnfuddsoddi gwahanol yn yr economi leol: Rhai ystyriaethau o'r sector Lled-ddargludyddion Cyfansawdd.

• Hefyd, mae'n bleser gennym groesawu Stephanie Howarth, Prif Ystadegydd, Llywodraeth Cymru, a fydd yn agor y fforwm.

Noder y caiff y Fforwm Economaidd ei gyflwyno yn Saesneg.

Gweld sleidiau

ONS Economic Forum - Darlington

Date: Monday 21 November 2022

Please note, this is a virtual event.

ONS Regional Economic Forum will present the current state of the UK economy and present data and analysis for your area at a local level.

We will welcome guest speakers from Teesside University, Darlington Economic Campus and Tees Valley Combined Authority

Agenda

9.30am to 9.35am  Welcome and introduction – Grant Fitzner, Chief Economist, Office for National Statistics    

9.35am to 9.50am ONS plans for subnational statistics – Samantha Toon and James McCrae, Office for National Statistics

9.50am to 10.05am Exploring Socio-economic trends, the work of Teesside University – Professor Natasha Vall, Dean of the School of Social Science, Humanities and Law, Teesside University

10.05am to 10.15am Q and A

10.15am to 10.30am Opportunity and Analysis – Darren Morgan, Director, Economic Statistics Production & Analysis, Office for National Statistics and Cain Baybutt, Office for National Statistics

10.30am to 10.45am What are Green Jobs and Why are they important? A Tees Valley Approach – Thomas Peggs, Tees Valley Combined Authority

10.45am to 10.55am Q and A

10.55am to 11.00am Closing remarks – Grant Fitzner, Chief Economist, Office for National Statistics

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ESCoE Webinar: The New Wave: Technology Diffusion in the UK During the 2010s

Date: Thursday 17 November 2022
Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm

A new wave of general-purpose technologies has emerged in the past decade. These technologies – such as cloud and machine learning or artificial intelligence – are held to be central for productivity and long-run economic growth, as well as driving regional disparities. The adoption of these technologies will be critical in shaping their future economic impact.

In this webinar we combine rich job ads data and administrative sources to track and explain the diffusion of these "new wave" technologies across UK firms and places over the 2010s. We focus on a specific economically and policy-relevant margin of diffusion: hiring. We first identify cloud and ML/AI jobs from ad text using keywords. We validate firm-level hiring-adoption links using survey data. We next explore patterns of hiring, and test for adoption drivers at firm and area level, including the relative roles of firm, industry and area characteristics; historic complements; and past technology waves. We use control functions and other methods to mitigate endogeneity concerns. Follow-up work will explore links between these diffusion patterns and area-level wage inequality.

Economic Data Science Seminar Series, Daniel Arribas-Bel

Date: Thursday 17 November 2022
Time: 3:00pm to 4:15pm

At this seminar you will hear from Daniel Arribas-Bel who is a Professor in Geographic Data Science at the the University of Liverpool, and Deputy Programme Director for Urban Analytics at the Alan Turing Institute. Daniel will be presenting on "Making it easy for regional scientists to consider (urban) form & function".

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ONS UK Climate Change Statistics Portal

Date: Wednesday 16 November 2022
Time: 1:00pm to 2:00pm

Join us for this ONS webinar with the Climate Change Coordination and Analysis team, in collaboration with the Integrated Data Service Dissemination team. It will showcase the latest version 2.0 of the UK Climate Change Statistics Portal, which launched on 27 October 2022.

The portal brings together a range of high-quality climate change data, statistics, and analysis into an accessible and usable format for policy makers and the public, to promote and facilitate analysis and research.

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: Monday 14 November 2022

Welcome to the monthly ONS Economic Forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest ONS economic and social analysis on a range of analytic topics to reflect latest current affairs and global developments.

To coincide with COP-27, presentations this month include:

• Welcome

• Climate Change Insights – a look at our quarterly publication that brings together climate change-related statistics and analysis from a range of sources. This presentation will focus on the upcoming publication, out on 11 November, which has a focus on land use, including changes in habitat types, farming practices, and the impact of temperature on agriculture and wildlife

• European comparisons of greenhouse gases – this presentation looks at Eurostat and ONS data on greenhouse gas emissions resulting from economic activity across member states, as well as the UK, covering greenhouse gases, CO2 emissions, fossil fuel extraction and environmental tax revenues

• Measuring Green Jobs – a brief summary of our work exploring how to measure green jobs, and plans for upcoming work on this topic

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ESCoE Webinar: The Pros and Cons of Consumption - and Income-Based Measures of Economic Well-being

Date: Thursday 3 November 2022

Income and (less frequently) consumption are both used as indicators of changes in economic well-being. We consider the pros and cons of each of these measures of well-being, discussing both conceptual and measurement issues.

Understanding the cost of living through statistics

Date: Tuesday 25 October 2022

In person at the Department Of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy located at 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET or virtual.

We are hosting a one-day event to discuss how the cost of living is affecting the UK economy and what this means for different households, informed by the range of statistics that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces.

You will also hear from our panel of guest speakers who will share their organisations’ data-driven insights and discuss identified analytical gaps on the cost of living

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ONS Economic Forum - Birmingham

Date: Monday 24 October 2022

Venue: The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2DR

ONS Regional Economic Forum will present the current state of the UK economy and present data and analysis for your area at a local level.

We will welcome Rebecca Riley, who is an Associate Professor of Impact, Engagement and Enterprise and the Business Development Director for City-REDI and Paul Forrest, Head of Research, Midlands Economic Forum.

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The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence webinar – Anywhere Jobs: Reshaping the Geography of Work

Date: Thursday 20 October 2022

In this seminar, we will explore research that identifies the characteristics and prevalence of Anywhere Jobs. The Occupational Information Network (ONET) dataset is a statistics database sponsored by the United States Department of Labor. We use it to analyse 100 plus work activities in more than 800 occupations to identify which need to be carried out in the UK, and those with the greatest potential to be done anywhere in the world.

ONS Economic Forum – Bank of England

Date: Monday 10 October 2022

Venue: Bank of England Museum, Bartholomew Lane, London, England, EC2R 8AH

Please be aware this is an in-person event

Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature 'State of the Economy', providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

Presentations this month include:

• New estimates of core inflation - trimmed mean CPI
• The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on UK GDP
• International Trade Flows of G7 Economies

We also welcome Fergal Shortall, Director of Monetary Analysis, Bank of England who will be providing a welcome to the forum.

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Modelling an Evolving Economy: A workshop on using new methods to measure structural economic change & inform policy

Date: Friday 7 October 2022

Venue: Digital Catapult, 101 Euston Road, London, NW1 2RA

Please be aware this is an in-person event.

New sources of data and ways to analyse them with machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and complexity science can help to capture the emergence of new scientific fields, technologies, industries and occupations, improving our ability to measure and model economic change and inform policy, funding and investment decisions. This includes how to identify and support emerging technologies and industries, level up local economies, make innovation more inclusive and accelerate the transition to a green economy.

This workshop will bring leading scholars, policymakers and statistical agencies at the forefront of this agenda together to discuss the state of the art and what’s needed to maximise the impact of these new data sources and methods on our understanding of the economy and the effectiveness of economic and research and innovation policy.

National Statistician Launch: Measures of National Well-being consultation

Date: Monday 3 October 2022

Virtual – Microsoft Teams

Restarting the regular updates of the Measuring National Well-being dashboard in August 2022 celebrates not only over 10 years since its creation, but its developments to date. This includes publishing alongside GDP and Climate change insights for the first time to more holistically measure progress in the UK. This milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on the changes to society during this time and the original 34,000 responses which fed into its design and creation.

With an opening address by Sir Ian Diamond, the National Statistician, this event will launch a consultation to review the measures included in the dashboard and how we communicate these insights.

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 26 September 2022

Welcome to the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytical topics. Each month, we will feature "State of the economy", providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

Presentations this month

Energy spending by businesses

We present our analysis of businesses' energy spending from the Annual Business Survey 2019 and the Annual Purchases Survey 2018 and the resulting experimental measures of energy intensity. We present how energy intensity varies across and within industries, by energy type and firm size, and depending on the type of measure used.

Tightness in the labour market

We will be presenting analysis of various measures of labour market slack and the relationship between industry unemployment and vacancies.

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ONS Economic Forum - Derby

Date: 8 September 2022

Location: Derby University, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB

Please be aware this is an in-person event.

Registration will open at 9:30, with session starting at 10:00

ONS Regional Economic Forum will present the current state of the UK economy and present data and analysis for your area at a local level.

We will welcome Professor Mark Gilman, who is a Professor of Economics with responsibilities within the University of Derby Regional Economic Observatory.

Presentations will also include:

• Understanding the UK Economy
• Showcase exciting developments supporting the levelling up agenda and work on sub-national data
• Addressing the productivity puzzle: from ONS data to the Transformational Triangle

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ESCoE - Modelling an Evolving Economy Workshop: A workshop on using new methods to measure structural economic change & inform policy

ONS Research Excellence Awards 2022

Closing date: midnight 29 July 2022

The ONS Research Excellence Awards 2022 are open!

The awards recognise excellent, impactful and innovative analysis. They promote best practice research methodologies and data matching or linking. The awards also raise awareness and promote understanding of the data we make available using our secure services, and the public good achieved by statistical research.

This year we have five award categories: 

• ONS Research Excellence Award
• ONS Cross-government Analysis Award
• ONS Linked Administrative Data Award
• ONS Early Career Research Award
• ONS People's Choice Award

To learn more about the award categories and to find out if a project is eligible for entry, visit our Research Excellence Awards page.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 18 July 2022

Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature "State of the Economy", providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

Presentations this month include:

• Subnational regional productivity in the UK
• Homeworking in the UK - regional patterns: 2019 to 2022
• Family spending in the UK
• Transforming consumer prices statistics with new data and methods: rail fares and second-hand cars

There will be an opportunity for participants to join a question and answer session at the end of the presentations.

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Economic data science seminar series webinar

Date: 15 June 2022

At this seminar you will hear from Alexandre Judes who is an Economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab. Alexandre will be presenting on "Working from home after COVID-19: what do job postings tell us?"

Bio

Alexandre Judes is an economist at the Indeed Hiring Lab with a focus on France. Prior to joining Indeed, he worked at a prominent French independent institute. At the institute, he was in charge of the digital economy portfolio and worked on multiple policy issues such as French competitiveness, labour market reform and European integration. His past engagements also include various stints in investment banking, consulting and public administration. He is a graduate of ENSAE Paris.

Abstract

We study the adoption of telework during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and beyond. We use a novel high-frequency database of job postings advertising telework covering 20 countries and 55 occupations, from the online job site Indeed. We find that increases in pandemic severity substantially raise advertised telework, but declines have no effect on advertised telework. Overall, these results imply that the pandemic has permanently unlocked the potential to telework, especially in high-skilled occupations where telework is most feasible. Public policies will need to adapt to make the most of permanently higher telework in terms of productivity and worker well-being.

Economic data science seminar series

The economic data science seminar series is a collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute, the Data Science Campus of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Centre for microdata methods and practice (Cemmap) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The intended audience for these seminars includes both policymakers and academics. The seminars will be overseen by a group of seminar partners made up of representatives of key stakeholder organisations.

The economic data science series has four objectives, including to:

• promote economic data science as a discipline
• link researchers across institutions and disciplines and bring together the academic and policy communities
• demonstrate cutting-edge applications of data science to economic questions to an audience of economists, data scientists and economic data scientists
• provide a forum for addressing challenges in current work

ESCoE Conference on Economic Measurement 2022

The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) held its annual Conference, organised in partnership with the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Venue: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Date: 25 to 27 May 2022

Keynote Speakers:

Sir Charles Bean (London School of Economics)
Chiara Crisco (OECD and London School of Economics)
Michael Pollitt (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)

Please visit the ESCoE website for further information.

ONS Economic Forum - Glasgow

Date: 24 May 2022

Location:
Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC)
University of Strathclyde
99 George Street
Glasgow
G1 1RD

ONS Regional Economic Forum will present the current state of the UK economy and present data and analysis for your area at a local level.

We will welcome Sandy Stewart and Sharada Davidson as our guest speakers. Sandy is the Head of National Accounts at the Scottish Government. Sharada is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Strathclyde.

Presentations will also include:

• Understanding the UK Economy
• Picture of the Scottish Economy
• ONS plans for subnational statistics
• ESCoE analysis on Building a Suite of Subnational Socioeconomic Indicators for the UK: Opportunities, Challenges and Recommendations

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Global Trade and Investment User Event

Date: 23 May 2022

Location:
Department Of Business, Energy and Industrial strategy
1 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0ET

The ONS are hosting our global first trade and investment user event. Over the last few years, feedback and extensive coverage of our trade and investment data has demonstrated how statistics have helped users; better understand the impacts of coronavirus and EU Exit, build collaborative partnerships with other countries for the purpose of making new trade deals, assess key research topics such as supply chains.

Our keynote speakers will present:

• How our statistics have been evolving and what our plans are for future improvements.
• Research on the impact of Brexit on UK investment patterns, UK inflation and the UK international trade performance.
• A user viewpoint - How Department for International Trade and the Bank of England use ONS trade data

Understanding how our users are using our data is important to us. We want to understand how that is changing and how we may need to reflect that in future developments.

A full agenda will be circulated nearer to the time.

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 16 May 2022

Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature ‘State of the Economy’, providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

Presentations this month include:

• Beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Regional Capital Estimates

There will be an opportunity for participants to join a Q and A session at the end of the presentations.

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ESWG Real Time Indicators Webinar

Date: 27 April 2022

The Economic Statistics Working Group invites you to join us on 27 April for this webinar on Real Time Indicators.

Official statistics are often criticised for time lag involved in their publication. The ONS has been exploring a number of ways of producing faster indicators. During the the coronavirus pandemic conventional data collection became both more important and more difficult.

This meeting on faster indicators discusses those such as the ONS fortnightly Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS), and those derived from real time administrative data. Heather Bovill and Emelia D'Silva-Parker from ONS will present a producer perspective while Nick Bate from the Bank of England will elaborate on the contribution of these data to policy decisions.

ONS' response to COVID-19 or data after COVID-19 – Grant Fitzner, Chief Economist, ONS

Faster indicators: The only game in GDP-town – Nick Bate, BoE

Nick Bate will discuss how the Bank of England has been using faster indicators in its assessment of the economy since the coronavirus pandemic hit.

Real Time Indicators: Capturing the economic and social impact to society within the UK – Emelia D'Silva-Parker

Emelia will discuss how faster indicators respond to emerging socio-economic trends within the UK across a wide range of themes reported in real-time.

Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) – the survey that can adapt to the ever changing economic picture – Heather Bovill, Deputy Director for Surveys and Economic Indicators, ONS

Faster indicators produced and published by the UK Office for National Statistics, such as the fortnightly Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS), have provided pivotal data used to measure and estimate the impact of challenges to the UK and to contextualise key performance metrics. Especially during the pandemic, when collection of data became more difficult and yet more crucial for decision making in important policy areas. Heather will explain the impact and importance of BICS, how it has been used to support policy decisions and how it has involved to adapt to the ever changing economic picture

ESWG - the Economic Statistics Working Group - is a collaboration between the Royal Statistical Society, the Royal Economic Society, the Society of Professional Economists, Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence and the Office for National Statistics. Its objects are to raise the profile of, and to stimulate debate about, issues in economic measurement.

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 25 April 2022

Webinar

Welcome to the monthly economic forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature "State of the Economy", providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

Presentations this month include:

• The higher cost of living and its impact on individuals in Great Britain

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ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar

Date: 24 March 2022

Work2Vec: Measuring the Latent Structure of the Labor Market

Presented by Daniel Rock (University of Pennsylvania)

Job postings provide unique insights about the demand for skills, tasks, and occupations. Using the full text of data from millions of online job postings, we train and evaluate a natural language processing (NLP) model with over 100 million parameters to classify job postings' occupation labels and salaries. To derive additional insights from the model, we develop a method of injecting deliberately constructed text snippets reflecting occupational content into postings. We apply this text injection technique to understand the returns to several information technology skills including machine learning itself. We further extract measurements of the topology of the labour market, building a "jobspace" using the relationships learned in the text structure. Our measurements of the jobspace imply expansion of the types of work available in the U.S. labour market from 2010 to 2019. We also demonstrate that this technique can be used to construct indices of occupational technology exposure with an application to remote work. Moreover, our analysis shows that data-driven hierarchical taxonomies can be constructed from job postings to augment existing occupational taxonomies like the SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) system.

Daniel Rock is an Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research is on the economic effects of digital technologies, with a particular emphasis on the economics of artificial intelligence. He has recently worked on studies addressing the types of occupations that are most exposed to machine learning, measuring the value of AI skillsets to employer firms, and adjusting productivity measurement to include investments in intangible assets. His research has been published in various academic journals and featured in outlets such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Harvard Business Review, and Sloan Management Review. Much of his work involves applying cutting-edge data science techniques to analyse datasets from financial market data sources, online resume sites, and job postings. Daniel received his B.S. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

ONS Economic and Public Policy Forum

ONS Economic and Public Policy Forum

Date: 21 March 2022

Webinar

Welcome to the monthly Economic and Public Policy Forum. Here we will be showcasing the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature ‘State of the Economy’, providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

Presentations this month include:

• Response to the Covid-19 pandemic
• Two years on: How has society’s concept of ‘normal’ daily life been affected by coronavirus pandemic?
• Movements out of work for those aged over 50 years since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and their reasons for leaving employment.

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National Balance Sheet User Forum Webinar

Date: 17 March 2022

The ONS are hosting our first User Forum on Estimating Net Worth in the National Balance Sheet. The event will provide users with the opportunity to hear about how we have been working to improve our estimates of one of the largest assets in the UK, land.

In 2020, the UK's net worth was £10.7 trillion. Land has been consistently the largest asset. Estimated at £6.3 trillion, it accounts for nearly 60% of the UK's net worth.

On a global level, understanding our economic dependency on natural resources, such as land, has never been more important in determining our future sustainability.

It will be an opportunity to discuss how new data sources and methodologies can improve our estimates on the value of land underlying dwellings and other buildings.

At an international level, Rebecca J. Anderson and Mohammed Abo Taleb from the McKinsey Global Institute will be discussing the "Rise and Rise of the Global Balance Sheet." Engaging with Statistics Canada we will be sharing examples of good practice and the challenges we experience in determining land estimates. We will also be hearing from our UK users, such as Jim Ebdon, from OBR on how land estimates contribute in setting public policy and Nick Mansley, from the Department of Land Economy at Cambridge University.

Keeping in touch with our users and understanding how their needs are transforming is very important to us. We welcome the opportunity to discuss our work with you and hear your views.

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ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar

Date: 10 March 2022

Local variations in the labour market impact of COVID-19

Presented by Jessica Hug (ESCoE)

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the UK labour market. Among other trends, unemployment and economic inactivity rose and, supported by the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), many eligible jobs were furloughed. Impacts were uneven across the UK. In this seminar, we will explore research that provides new evidence of the pandemic's disruption of local labour markets in Great Britain. We combine individual-level data from the UK Labour Force Survey (LFS), the survey used to estimate the official UK unemployment rate in which households are sampled in every week of the year; with local authority-level data on vacancies, claimant unemployment and employment. This data is then used to examine local labour markets and the extent to which they were affected by the pandemic, as well as the extent to which they appeared to later rebound.

Jessica Hug is an Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence Research Associate at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). She is particularly interested in understanding inequalities in living conditions and how localisation choice of worker within countries and recent technological change affect it.

Building a Suite of Subnational Socioeconomic Indicators for the UK

Date: 24 February 2022

Please join us for the ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar with Sharada Davidson, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Strathclyde.

The levelling up agenda has put a spotlight on subnational statistics in the UK. However, as emphasised in the Government Statistical Service (GSS) subnational data strategy, the need for better subnational statistics predates any recent shifts in the policy landscape. Although the Office for National Statistics (ONS) together with the devolved administrations now publish more subnational data than before, they are typically part of different releases which consider specific categories of indicators and data across the four nations may not always be comparable. In this webinar, we present recent findings from our scoping study to build a suite of subnational statistics for the UK. We will discuss current practice in Canada where subnational economic indicators are frequently published. We will also consider the UK policy landscape and the leading challenges associated with the collection of subnational statistics through businesses and household surveys. Having appraised the trade-offs, challenges and opportunities, we will provide our recommendations regarding which existing socioeconomic indicators and potential new indicators could be included in the suite.

Health Data Science Seminar Series

Date: 17 February 2022

Using health data to improve outcomes for patients - Dr Adam Steventon, Director of Data Analytics at the Health Foundation

Hosted by ONS' Data Science Campus and Health Analysis Team, this brand-new seminar series is an exciting opportunity to hear about recent developments in health data science, to generate ideas, and to help build the health data science community.

The seminars provide a dedicated space for data scientists, policymakers, health professionals, academics, epidemiologists, statisticians and other members of the data science community to come together to explore the potential of data science to improve health and health policy.

At this seminar you will hear from Dr Adam Steventon, who is Director of Data Analytics at the Health Foundation. Adam will be presenting on "Using health data to improve outcomes for patients".

Abstract

Adam will be talking about how NHS and social care organisations can be using data more effectively to improve services, and the steps that national organisations, academia and industry can be taking to support that endeavour. Adam will look back at the last twenty years to draw out some of the lessons, analyse current strategy and make some recommendations for the future.

Bio

Dr Adam Steventon is Director of Data Analytics at the Health Foundation, an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK. He is responsible for developing and leading the Foundation's Data Analytics for Better Health strategy, which aims to ensure that everyone in the UK benefits from advances in analytics and data-driven technologies such as artificial intelligence.

Adam's team at the Health Foundation uses data to tackle problems affecting people's health. He and his colleagues produce open-source tools and approaches that can be used by others and champion better analytics throughout the health and social care system. They also design and deliver large-scale initiatives such as the Networked Data Lab and the Improvement Analy Unit. Their research and analysis inform national policy.

ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 14 February 2022

Webinar

• State of the UK Economy - providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments
• The costs and benefits of homeworking - One of the enduring effects of the pandemic has been a rise in the popularity of homeworking. Understanding how working patterns have changed and the extent of both positive and negative impacts resulting from these changes is a priority across government departments and key to informing future policy decisions. We present some recent analysis looking at changes in spending as a result of homeworking and outline plans for future analysis.

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Health Data Science Seminar Series

Date: Monday 24 January 2022

Investing in Collaboration - Architectural Concepts for Machine Learning in Healthcare - Peter A D Steel, Weill Cornell Medicine and Yiye Zhang, Weill Cornell Medicine

Hosted by the ONS' Data Science Campus and Health Analysis Team, this brand-new seminar series is an exciting opportunity to hear about recent developments in health data science, to generate ideas, and to help build the health data science community.

The seminars provide a dedicated space for data scientists, policymakers, health professionals, academics, epidemiologists, statisticians and other members of the data science community to come together to explore the potential of data science to improve health and health policy.

At this seminar you will hear from Peter A D Steel (M.A., M.B.B.S.), who is the Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Yiye Zhang (Ph.D., M.S.) who is Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and Emergency Medicine. Peter and Yiye will present on "Investing in Collaboration - Architectural Concepts for Machine Learning in Healthcare".

Abstract

Machine learning (ML) has the potential to transform healthcare, utilizing big data to improve individual patient care and optimize healthcare systems. We examine applications of machine learning in clinical medicine, and the associated challenges, to elucidate the necessary culture, expertise, processes and infrastructure to ensure ML's value in healthcare is realized.

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ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar

Date: 13 January 2022

An occupation and asset driven approach to capital utilisation adjustment in productivity statistics

Please join us for the ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar with Josh Martin, Head of Productivity at the Office for National Statistics

During the coronavirus pandemic, with many workers working from home and businesses closed down, it seems clear that the utilisation of capital assets fell. If we view this not as a fall in productivity, but as a fall in measured inputs, we may need to adjust the growth accounting framework for changes in capital utilisation. There is no internationally agreed method to adjust for capital utilisation; although a method using labour hours worked as a proxy for capital hours worked is most widely used. We offer an extension to this approach, overcoming conceptual issues by matching worker types (occupations) to capital types (assets). We use the hours worked of relevant occupations, relative to usual hours worked, in order to measure deviations in capital utilisation by asset. We also introduce a conceptual framework to apply these adjustments, noting that not all assets will be subject to variation in utilisation to the same degree. Our central estimate shows a decline in capital utilisation of around 9% in the UK market sector in the height of the pandemic, recovering over half of this by the end of 2020. This subdues, but does not eliminate, the fall in MFP through 2020.

ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar

Date: Thursday 16 December 2021

Business Formation Statistics: from research to production

Please join us for the ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar with Alyson Plumb, the Economic Indicator Division's Business Formation Statistics Team Lead at the U.S. Department of Commerce's Census Bureau

Discover the Census Bureau's Business Formation Statistics (BFS) program. The BFS uses applications for Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to construct nationwide, industry-level and state-level time series for new business applications, as well as actual and projected employer business formations originating from these applications. Learn about the data, the evolution of the BFS program from its research beginnings, and new BFS research applications.

ONS Economic Forum

Date: 13 December 2021

• Launch of the GSS Subnational Data Strategy.

• Disaggregating annual subnational gross value added (GVA) to lower levels of geography, 1998 to 2019. The article accompanies experimental GVA statistics, which are part of a wider project aiming to produce economic statistics for small geographical areas. The article describes the method and data sources used to disaggregate GVA into low-level building blocks that can be used to build up standard and bespoke geographies. It presents four test cases to illustrate the flexibility of the approach used.

• Understanding Towns in England and Wales: industry analysis – This article explores how industry structure varies across England and Wales, and how it is associated with factors such as population, geographical location and size.

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Health Data Science Seminar Series Webinar

Date: Thursday 9 December 2021

Using data science to solve health challenges: what we've learned and where we're going, Tariq Khokhar, Wellcome Trust.

Hosted by the ONS' Data Science Campus and Health Analysis Team, this brand-new seminar series is an exciting opportunity to hear about recent developments in health data science, to generate ideas, and to help build the health data science community.

The seminars provide a dedicated space for data scientists, policymakers, health professionals, academics, epidemiologists, statisticians and other members of the data science community to come together to explore the potential of data science to improve health and health policy.

At this seminar you will hear from Tariq Khokhar who is the Head of Data for Science and Health at the Wellcome Trust. Tariq will present on "Using data science to solve health challenges: what we've learned and where we're going".

The session will focus on how data and software tools are transforming science and health. The last decade has seen the field of health data science mature rapidly. But there remain huge opportunities to improve how this new field ultimately benefits society: from tools, methods and the teams using them; to policies, standards and engagement with the people whose lives are being affected.

What can we learn from successes in this field to date? What can the worlds of health data science and official statistics learn from each other? And how can we use health data science to tackle some of our biggest health challenges?

The seminar will be chaired by National Statistician Sir Ian Diamond.

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Economic Data Science Seminar Series

Causal inference for machine learning

Date: 2 December 2021

At this seminar you will hear from Amit Sharma who is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India. His work bridges causal inference techniques with data mining and machine learning, with the goal of making machine learning models generalize better, be explainable and avoid hidden biases.

Abstract

As predictive models based on machine learning (ML) are applied in diverse domains from healthcare to finance, reliability of the black-box models is one of the biggest problems facing ML research today: would the model generalize to out-of-distribution data, would it be fair to different subpopulations, and would it be explainable?

Amit will show how incorporating causality in predictive models can be useful for all these problems. Standard causal inference methods like matching can be applied to make deep learning models generalize to unseen distributions. A simple method based on matching obtains state-of-the-art results on domain generalization benchmarks. Similarly, the concept of counterfactuals is essential to explain machine learning models. Amit will describe work on automatically finding counterfactuals for any prediction and using it to create counterfactual-based explanations.

Finally, Amit will show that causal graphs are fundamental to understand the fairness of a ML system. Common fairness metrics fail to ensure fairness unless they account for the causal process that generates a given dataset.

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Economic Data Science Seminar Series

The Alan Turing Institute, the Data Science Campus of the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Centre for microdata methods and practice (Cemmap) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are collaborating for the economic data science seminar series. The intended audience for these seminars includes both policymakers and academics, and the seminars will be overseen by a group of seminar partners made up of representatives of key stakeholder organisations.

The economic data science series has four objectives:

• to promote economic data science as a discipline

• to link researchers across institutions and disciplines and bring together the academic and policy communities

• to demonstrate cutting-edge applications of data science to economic questions to an audience of economists, data scientists and economic data scientists

• to provide a forum for addressing challenges in current work

ONS Economic Forum

ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar

Date: Thursday 2 December 2021

National Natural Capital Accounting in the UK

Please join us for the ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar with Adam Dutton, Office for National Statistics

The UK has been developing Natural Capital Accounts for the last 10 years. Over that time the methods and data have matured along with the priority of the environment for public policy. This talk will work through the challenges faced in building the accounts as they are; what they can already do; the possibilities for the future of natural capital accounting and what it will take to achieve them.

Date: 22 November 2021
Webinar

• State of the UK Economy - providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments

• Trade in Services impacts from EU Exit and COVID-19. We’ll be presenting our latest analysis of UK trade in services in the context of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the end of the EU transition period on 31 December 2020. The presentation will look at the impacts on exports and imports of services in the context of global challenges to trade, along with some detailed analysis of the impacts on specific services accounts such as travel, transport, and financial services.

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ONS Economic Forum

Date: 25 October 2021
Webinar

• State of the UK Economy - providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments

• Environmentally-adjusted productivity estimates for the UK - Does adjusting for environmental inputs and outputs help to explain the 'productivity puzzle'? Does it change our understanding of productivity growth in the UK? We will showcase a range of ONS data and possible methods to adjust productivity statistics for environmental factors, including energy use, atmospheric emissions, and environmental protection expenditures.

• Transition to Net Zero: Deep dive into the Low Emissions Vehicles (LEV) sector

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ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar

Date: Thursday 21 October 2021

The user cost of owner occupied housing: Implications for the measurement of inflation and housing market equilibrium

Please join us for the ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar with Robert Hill, Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Graz.

The concept of the user-cost of owner-occupied housing has two main measurement applications. First, it can be used to construct a price index and expenditure share for owner-occupied housing, thus allowing owner-occupied housing to be included in a consumer price index. Second, the user-cost equilibrium condition asserts that in equilibrium the cost of owner occupying should equal the cost of renting. On rearrangement, this condition provides a formula for the equilibrium price-rent ratio (or rental yield) in the housing market. In this talk I will discuss and contrast some of the problems one encounters in practice when trying to apply the user-cost concept to measure either inflation or the equilibrium price-rent ratio. In both cases, non-sensical results can easily arise if care is not taken.

Public Policy Analysis Forum - Mental Health and Wellbeing in Children

Date: 13 October
Time: 10:00 to 11:30

Overview:

"There is understandable concern about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions on the mental health of children and young people.

In this forum, Tim Vizard from the ONS and Tamsin Ford, professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Cambridge will provide an overview of analysis on mental health and wellbeing, including a review of the findings from the NHS Digital report on Mental Health of Children and Young People in England 2021, published on 30th September.

We also welcome Emma Nelson and Donna Phillips from the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England, who will be presenting on the The Big Ask report, published on 21 September. The survey is the biggest of its kind in the world and asked young people between the ages of 4 to 17 over six weeks in April and May 2021 about their experiences of the pandemic and to hear about their hopes for the future."

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ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar

Thursday 7 October 2021
Offshore Profit Shifting and Aggregate Measurement

Please join us for the ESCoE Economic Measurement Webinar with Kim Ruhl, Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In this talk we show how offshore profit shifting by U.S. multinational enterprises affects several key measures of the U.S. economy. Profits shifted out of the United States grew rapidly from the mid-1990s to 2010 and have since waned. From 1982–2016, on average, 37 percent of income attributed to U.S. direct investment abroad is reattributable to the United States. We find that adjusting for profit shifting shrinks the trade deficit, decreases the return on U.S. foreign direct investment abroad, boosts productivity growth rates in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and lowers labour’s share of income.

Census Outputs Consultation – now live

On 13 July 2021 the Office for National Statistics launched a public consultation, outlining our proposals for the content design and shape of the release plans for Census 2021 outputs.

The aim of this consultation is to obtain an updated view of your detailed needs for Census 2021 data and analysis, and to understand your priorities.

Your feedback will help us to make decisions on the final design of the Census 2021 outputs and analysis for England and Wales.

Leaving no one behind - How can we be more inclusive in our data?

Launch: Inclusive Data Taskforce recommendations report
Date: Tuesday 28 September
Time: 10:00am to 11.30am

The UK Statistics Authority's Statistics for the Public Good sets out a new vision for the UK statistical system. A core principle of that vision is inclusivity; that our statistics reflect the experiences of everyone in our society so that everyone counts - and that no one is forgotten.

Last October, the National Statistician convened an independent Inclusive Data Taskforce, comprised of a diverse group of senior academics and civil society leaders with a breadth of expertise. Chaired by Dame Moira Gibb, the Taskforce was challenged to develop a set of recommendations that would create a step-change in the inclusivity of the UK's data and evidence base.

Join us for the Inclusive Data Taskforce Report launch on Tuesday 28 September (10:00am to 11.30am) to discover more about the Taskforce's recommendations, the National Statistician's response, and our future plans.

Speakers include:

• Professor Sir Ian Diamond – National Statistician

• Dame Moira Gibb – Chair, Inclusive Data Taskforce

• Panel to be confirmed

Economic Data Science Seminar Series

23 September 2021
Webinar
Maximilian Kasy, professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford will be presenting on Social foundations for statistics and machine learning

If you have any questions about future events, or would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact Economic.Engagement@ons.gov.uk.

UK Business Data User Conference

21 September 2021
Webinar

The UK Business Data User Conference is a one-day conference jointly organised by the UK Data Service and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The conference will be held online and is free to attend.

The conference programme contains a mixture of presentations from ONS, UK Data Service, and researchers who have used economic and business data covering the areas of business, industry and trade.

Following a key note by Donna Leong, Director of Economic Statistics Change at ONS on the Economic and Business Statistics transformation programme, ARIES (Ambitious, Radical, Inclusive Economic Statistics), attendees will hear updates from the data producers of key UK business surveys and administrative data, such as:

• Business Structure Database

• Annual Business Survey

• Annual Inquiry into Foreign Direct Investment

• Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

• Business Insights and Conditions Survey

• Inter-Departmental Business Register (and linked data)

• and many more

There will be an opportunity for Q and A.

Following a post lunch panel on use of government commissioned research, there will be three parallel sessions where researchers will speak on their work on business productivity, R&D and innovation; impact of investments and policy; and business trade and international markets.

Finally there is lunchtime drop-in session where attendees can ask questions of our resident experts on how to craft an accredited research project.

Follow the event on Twitter: #UKBusinessData21

ONS Economic Forum

13 September 2021
Webinar

• State of the UK Economy - providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments

• How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected Great Britain's living conditions? - On 13 September, ONS will be publishing an analysis article on how household finances have changed during the pandemic. This will present findings on how incomes and levels of spending have changed during 2020/21, how this might have translated to changes in savings and debt, as well as household's general ability to make ends meet. The analysis will synthesise findings from a number of different ONS data sources, to cover each of these different areas. We will be looking at how household experiences vary depending on where they had previously been on the income distribution before the pandemic, whether they had received support from a government scheme, and household characteristics. The presentation will include additional analysis that will be published alongside the article.
  

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Long COVID in the UK: Prevalence, Impact and Emerging Insights

Webinar
21 July 2021
Measuring the emerging phenomenon of post-COVID-19 syndrome ('long COVID').
For some people, coronavirus (COVID-19) can cause symptoms that last weeks or months after the infection has gone. This is sometimes called post-COVID-19 syndrome or 'long COVID'. Long COVID is an emerging phenomenon that is not yet fully understood.

Hosted by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Statistics User Network (SUN), this seminar was an exciting opportunity to hear recent evidence on long COVID, including the latest ONS releases on the prevalence and impact of long COVID (published in July 2021).

The Statistics User Network is a public facing engagement platform for stats users, stats producers and anyone who is interested in statistics. SUN is managed by the Office for National Statistics.

ONS Economic Forum

19 July 2021
Webinar

• Hospitality in the time of COVID 19 - Analysis of the hospitality industry during its reopening into summer 2021. Focusing on consumer demand, the impact on businesses, vacancies and wages.

• State of the UK Economy - providing a stocktake of the latest trends and developments.

• Subnational FDI estimates - Analysis of experimental statistics on the stock of foreign direct investment (FDI) by UK country, region and city region between 2015 and 2019.
  

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ONS Research Excellence Series

13 July 2021
Webinar

Data after Covid-19 Conference

6 July 2021
Webinar

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have teamed up with the ONS, NIESR and ESCoE to hold a conference bringing people across government, academia and private sector together to emphasise the benefits of data sharing beyond navigating a pandemic and capitalise on that learning. The event on the 6 July 2021 will be centred around the improvement in data sharing across Whitehall, academia, and the private sector. Hopefully, this process can also highlight what were the key limitations holding us back from doing so before

ESCoE Workshop - Ever-increasing demand for regional statistics: COVID-19 era and beyond

24 June 2021
Webinar
Please visit the ESCoE website for details.

Economic Data Science Seminar Series

24 June 2021
Webinar
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ESWG Gender Pay Gap Seminar

23 June 2021
Webinar
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If you require a transcript of the video, please send an email request to Economic.Engagement@ons.gov.uk

ONS Economic Forum

14 June 2021
Webinar
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ESWG Seminar - Round table on GDP and welfare

25 May 2021
Webinar
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Productivity User Event

20 May 2021
Webinar

ONS Economic Forum

17 May 2021
Webinar
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ESCoE Conference

11 to 13 May 2021
Webinar
All recordings and slides from the ESCoE conference 2021 are available. Please be aware that this platform will only be available until 13 June 2021. After this date all content will be available on the Economics Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE) website.

ESWG and Cemmap Conference on Prices

28 and 29 April 2021
Webinar
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ONS Economic Forum

19 April 2021
Webinar
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ESWG Seminar – Dasgupta Report – Recommendations for revised economic accounting

30 March 2021
Webinar
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ONS Economic Forum

23 March 2021
Webinar
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ONS Economic Forum

1 February 2021
Webinar
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The ethnicity data gap: exploring the evidence base

4 November 2020
Webinar

ONS Economic Forum

2 November 2020
Webinar
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Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence Conference

16 to 18 September 2020
Webinar

UK Statistics Authority/Treasury consultation on the reform of RPI methodology

27 July 2020
Webinar

ONS Economic Forum

8 July 2020
Webinar
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ONS Economic Forum

25 February 2020
Brewers’ Hall, Aldermanbury Square, London, EC2V 7HR
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ONS Economic Forum

24 October 2019
Greater London Authority, City Hall, London, SE1 2AA
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ONS Economic Forum

21 October 2019
Bank of England
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Economic Forum

18 July 2019
Glaziers Hall, 9 Montague Close, London Bridge, London, SE1 9DD
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Economic Forum, Edinburgh

17 June 2019
Surgeons Quarter, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW
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Cardiff Economic Forum

13 June 2019
Cardiff Business School, 3rd Floor, Post Graduate Teaching Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
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Measuring the Economy – Online Book Launch

6 June 2019
Warwick Business School, 17th Floor, The Shard, London, SE1 9SG

Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence Conference on Economic Measurement 2019

8 to 10 May 2019
King’s College, London

Economic Forum

29 April 2019
The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London
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UK Productivity Forum

13 March 2019
The Westminster Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London
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Bristol Economic Forum

1 March 2019
Bristol
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Economic Forum

29 January 2019
The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London
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Exploring Regional Statistics

16 January 2019
Nottingham University
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Cambridge Economic Roadshow

30 November 2018
Francopan Hall, University of Cambridge
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Productivity Seminar

22 November 2018
110 Rochester Row, London
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ONS Economic Forum

11 October 2018
Bank of England, London
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Flow of Funds Seminar

20 September 2018
Cavendish Conference Centre, London
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ONS Economic Forum

26 July 2018
Crowne Plaza, London, The City
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Challenges and Opportunities in Price Measurement Seminar

19 July 2018
The Shard, London
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ONS Economic Forum – West Sussex

28 June 2018
Chichester, West Sussex
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Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence International Conference on Economic Measurement

16 to 17 May 2018
Bank of England

ONS Economic Forum

26 April 2018
Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London
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Special event – focus on UK trade

16 April 2018
Crowne Plaza, London
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Measuring and Using Natural Capital Seminar

5 March 2018
Victoria Park Plaza, London
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ONS Economic Forum – Belfast

7 March 2018
Riddel Hall, Queen’s University, Belfast
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ONS Earnings User Event

7 February 2018
Church House Conference Centre, London

ONS Economic Forum – London

23 January 2018
Glaziers Hall, London
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