Office for National Statistics

Office for National Statistics | September 23, 2016

The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced plans to work with Adobe Systems to help develop the methodology of Adobe’s Digital Price Index (DPI). The DPI, which has previously been published in the USA and launched in the UK today, measures the changing prices and volumes of items sold on websites. ONS will work with Adobe as part of ONS’s wider strategy which includes working with other innovators to develop data collection techniques. This strategy has also i...

Office for National Statistics | October 12, 2016

ONS has today announced plans to introduce new questions to its household and business internet surveys as part of plans to produce standalone statistics on the sharing economy. The new questions will provide data on the proportion of people and businesses that have arranged accommodation or transport services via platforms such as Airbnb, SpareRoom, Uber and Lyft. ONS currently plans to publish the first estimates of individuals’ use of sharing economy platforms in August 2017. ONS is als...

Office for National Statistics | October 06, 2016

ONS has today published the first set of VAT turnover data. Once fully developed, the new VAT data will be an important new data source for GDP, delivering greatly improved detail about the UK economy, with more detailed industry-level data, better geographic breakdowns and more information about small businesses. In addition, this new data source will give ONS an almost complete picture of the turnover of UK businesses within 5 months of the end of each quarter, as well as potentially reducing ...

Huawei | January 15, 2020

The U.S. government is nearing publication of a rule that would vastly expand its powers to block shipments of foreign-made goods to China’s Huawei, as it seeks to squeeze the blacklisted telecoms company, two sources said. The U.S. Commerce Department in May placed Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] on a trade blacklist, citing national security concerns. That allowed the U.S. government to restrict sales of U.S.-made goods to the company and a small number of items made abroad that cont...