Visual content from the ONS has a new home

21 March 2018
By Darren Waters

In January 2015 we launched this Beta website called Visual.ONS – designed to help us learn how better to tell stories from our statistics to a broad audience. Three years and more than 200 stories later we’re ready to take off the training wheels. At the end of March we’ll be moving our […]

Young people spend a third of their leisure time on devices

19 December 2017
By ONS Digital

Young people spent more than a third of their overall leisure time – around 14 hours per week – using a device in 2015, new analysis shows. Men aged 25 and under use devices such as mobile phones, tablets, e-readers and laptops the most. Device use occupied 35% of their leisure time, whereas for women […]

Explore the gender pay gap and test your knowledge

26 October 2017
By Darren Waters

The gender pay gap for full-time employees now stands at 9.1% in favour of men, the lowest since records began in 1997.

House prices: how much does one square metre cost in your area?

11 October 2017
By

Feature image of a house and flats over blueprints

Homes in the most expensive area of England and Wales cost 25 times as much as in the cheapest area, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis of 2016 property prices.

The challenges of measuring GDP in the digital, borderless world

22 November 2016
By

The digital economy has transformed the way we do business. However it presents many challenges when it comes to measuring its performance and any change in the behaviour of consumers. How do we measure the success of the economy in a rapidly changing world?