Deaths remain much lower than during the major pandemic waves, but the latest ONS data show 55 deaths involving COVID-19 in the week ending 9 October, up 34.1% on the previous week.
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The Office of National Statistics now says data on post-Covid economic activity was flawed; the workforce did not shrink by as much as thought & recovered more quickly;
given recent revisions of productivity figures, what we are seeing is the ONS have been misinforming Govt., and Govt. has been acting on mistaken data.
This may not reveal an economy firing on all cylinders but it does mean the UK is less of a European outlier economically... which *is* interesting.
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@ChrisMayLA6
Using a technology known to invent numbers to produce vital national statistics seems… unwise, shall we say.
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The Office of National Statistics which has been suffering from a range of problems with its data in recent years, will utilise AI & associated technologies to 'solve' these problems & to improve efficiency in analysing the raw data it collects, and (of course) to cut costs - by which it means further reduce its staffing.
Given this is an *expansion* of AI use one might wonder if its recent problems have been caused by AI-use rather than likely to be solved by it?
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Governo prepara operação especial para evitar apagões durante as eleições
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://iclnoticias.com.br/economia/governo-operacao-apagoes-eleicoes/
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Beset by problems the UK Office of National Statistics is also suffering from a workforce problem;
needing to expand (re-develop) its field interview teams, the ONS is having difficulty getting them up to full minimum complement to complete surveys behind the Labour Force Survey as well as other data gathering, partly because of increasing hostility by the public to be interviewed by ONS surveyors.
As society becomes more defensive so people value their privacy more?
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#ONS state that #homicides ( #Murder and #Manslaughter ) in #England and #Wales are at their lowest level in 50 years).
I have no reason to disbelieve these #statistics, so why does it seem there are so many #murders in #news?
near 500 is still more than one every day, but another factor is delays between an incident and subsequent investigation and Court cases, and when a case is in Court same #crime will repeatedly appear in the news - its easy to double count incidents.
Also 30-40 years ago it wasn't quite as easy to see news from a region many miles away from your home area, but today "local" news sites fill up the space with crime reports from other areas.
This must impact a lot on fear of crime amongst those who aren't paying close attention..
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Census is one of the basic tools for governing any nation. It counts & locates people, and collects data about their lives, vital for planning nearly every function of govt.
The UK census is weakened by its 10 year cycle, instead of 5 in Ireland, Canada, Japan. Now it adds 2 big problems: failed cost-cutting, and falling survey returns. The #OfficeForNationalStatistics #ONS is weakened by a botched relocation.
#FT report: https://archive.is/rJI4z h/t @ChrisMayLA6
#ukpol fails the basics
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The next census is in 2031, but already the Office of National Statistics is in a quandary: it *had* expected to be able to pick up much of the data from other Govt, sources allowing it to sample less for the actual census (saving money)... but that now looks like it will not deliver the overall census data required, so its back to its older methods.
The problem is the ONS current difficulties are partly from its mismanagement of its survey function.
Not looking good!
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Interestingly, Patrick Jenkins' (FT) discussion the myriad failures at the Office of National Statistics, notes that the 'well-intentioned' move of the ONS from London to Newport, Wales involved the loss of around 90% if its London based staff...
While his criticism of management at & funding of the ONS are on the button, the idea that failures are due to a lack of good staff in Wales is (as it was when it was originally made in 2016), a classic bit of London-based prejudice!
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And so the disaster zone that is the Office of National Statistics continues to degrade official statistics, this time by allocating interviewers to the wrong survey & as itself admitted, its already troubled labour force survey data has been compromised *again*!
Given the labour force survey is a key element of the job data which is used by the Govt (but also the Bank of England, when setting interest rates), this is really pretty poor.
Remedial action is required!
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ONS ativa plano para evitar colapso no sistema elétrico | BandNews TV
Saiba mais em: 📱 Redes sociais: 📸 Instagram: 🐦Twitter: ➡️ TikTok: 🔵 Facebook: #bandnewstv #ons #energiasrenováveis #energiaelétrica #sistemaelétrico #eletricidade
https://fllics.com/en/video/ons-ativa-plano-para-evitar-colapso-no-sistema-eletrico-bandnews-tv/
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One of the departments I worked in was forced to have a review, which they had to pay for from their usual budget.
One of the recommendations was to cut more staff than worked in that section. They confused PT with FTE.
Not the only error, and they thought some of our core work was optional.A few weeks later I was behind two young men who were discussing how to fake it when they didn't know what they were doing - they worked for the same company.
#KPMG
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Unemployment rate rises and vacancies slump in first signs of Iran war jobs hit
Official figures reveal deepening jobs woes in the retail and hospitality sectors (Alamy/PA) (Alamy/PA) Britain’s unemployment rate has…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #Business #hospitalitysectors #Iran #IranWar #ONS #UK #Unemploymentrate #UnitedKingdom #vacancies
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🗞️ 🗞️ CPC-CG Director Prof Jane Falkingham spoke with The Telegraph about the closing gap between men's and women's #longevity following newly published #ONS data on UK #lifeexpectancy :
“Women are adopting male #healthrisk behaviours, so it’s partly because men’s life expectancy is improving, but also because women’s isn’t going up as fast. Women were just so far ahead, it’s important to remember that these increases [for men] are from a very low baseline.”
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'Rather than trying to “fix” falling #birthrates, #policymakers should prepare for an #older #population – from rethinking how #oldage support is funded, to enabling people to remain in #work for longer. “Simply telling people to have more #babies is unlikely to work,” said CPC-CG member Dr Bernice Kuang' (Department of #SocialStatistics and #Demography at the University of #Southampton), who spoke with #TheGuardian last week about the latest #ONS #PopulationProjections.
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Capital Digital – Política e Ecomomia do mundo digital – Por Luiz Queiroz [Unofficial] @[email protected]Data centers disputam 7 GW na fila da transmissão e pressionam regulação
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Latest England COVID‑19 data - plotted on a chart showing weekly: cases, hospitalisations, deaths, and PCR positivity.
👉 580 cases, 572 in hospital, 34 deaths, 2.6% positivity.
Reminding us that COVID hasn’t gone away.
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Last week's #ONS seminar "Introducing the UK headline measures of national #wellbeing" was interesting. The session was not recorded but the slides are available here:
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/introducing-the-uk-headline-measures-of-national-well-being/286342213Areas of discussion in the Q&A:
- A report on the methodology deriving these indicators potentially to be published.
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📉 When data from the Office for National #Statistics #ONS confirmed a continued fall in #fertility rates across England and Wales, CPC-CG members were called upon to provide expert comment, with CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham describing it as "a really transitional moment" in The Guardian.
Read a round-up of our members' contributions on p.4 of the latest issue of our newsletter, Changing Populations:
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英國失業率升至近五年高位 16 至 24 歲失業率逾十年新高 入門級職位競爭激烈
英國國家統計局（ONS）最新數據顯示，上季失業率升至 5.2 %，較前期上升 0.1 個百分點，創近五年新高； […]
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#最新 #英國/歐洲 #財經 #ONS
https://points-media.com/最新/英國失業率升至近五年高位-16-至-24-歲失業率逾十年新/ -
England COVID-19 latest data
124 weekly deaths involving COVID-19 for week ending 31 Oct 2025: #ONS
1,602 patients in hospital with COVID-19 as of 31 Oct 2025: #NHS
1,351 cases week to 5 Nov 2025: #UKHSA
People still being infected / infecting others.
#LongCOVID disabling.
👇Data links in alt text.👇
https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-viruses/covid-19 https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/ https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales -
More on the crises engulfing the Office of National Statistics:
To free up staff to work to rectify problems in a range of economic data, perhaps most obviously the now unreliable Labour Force Survey, the ONS is puling staff off work on health & crime statistics. It is also looking to pause it annual local survey efforts from which much data on inequality is derived.
While we need good (better) economic data this should at the cost of vital crime & health statistics.
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arts technica (Traduction DeepL translator)
L’ONS ne peut plus cibler les utilisateurs de WhatsApp avec le logiciel espion Pegasus
Un juge fédéral a ordonné au fabricant de logiciels espions NSO de cesser d’utiliser son application Pegasus pour cibler ou infecter les utilisateurs de WhatsApp
https://mcinformactions.net/l-ons-ne-peut-plus-cibler-les-utilisateurs-de-whatsapp-avec-le-logiciel-espion
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As the Office of National Statistics struggles to regain confidence in its statistical work, a recent report suggests the next census needs a better model for assessing a range of gender gaps in its data.
Specifically this should enable the ONS to get better information on how un-paid care is patterned (given most, but not all, is delivered by women). There's also a need for more fine-grained analysis of occupations to capture gender disparities.
#census #ONS #gender
https://www.wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/bridging-the-gender-data-gap-using-census-data-to-understand-gender-inequalities-across-the-uk.pdf -
ONS data-sharing dream ended with three rival platforms • The Register
This kind of thing is just so typical of digital and tech infrastructure projects in UK...we're just so phenomenally bad at it ☹️. Huge amounts of public money gobbled up with not much positive impact to show for it.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/ons_data_sharing_mess/
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I'm a data point for ONS. Got interviewed today in the random sample of households for the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
UK peeps, please report the racist flaggers.
It turned out there was no coded entry for flaggers under antisocial behaviour in this 2025 questionnaire (like, red-stripes-on-a-white-roundabout graffiti). And, yes, I failed the question about "did I report it".
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Here is a repost showing the shortest walking route on the British mainland as an orange line from census locations to the nearest heavy rail station. This uses #OpenStreetMap road and street data, #ONS and #LibraryOfScotland census population areas (Output Areas OA/Data Zone DZ) and was developed in #Python. The stations are show on the left-hand side as an orange diamond with a black boundary.