Economic Insights

The Longitudinal Business Database: Capturing the UK economy with new business microdata

The LBD is at its core a re-usable longitudinal data spine with each of its component providing the longitudinal link between business references. Data spine is a new concept.

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Technical report: nowcasting UK household income using the new “signature” method

This report is part of a programme of work that the ONS has been doing with the Alan Turing Institute to explore the usefulness of various economic nowcasting methods, particularly the signature method.

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Helping decision makers understand the economy quickly through new methods

Nowcasting refers to generating estimates of the current (“now”) state of the economy.  We investigate how signature methods can be useful in the context of economic nowcasting

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