Paul Allin is a member of the UK National Statistician's Expert User Advisory Committee and he is the Royal Statistical Society's Honorary Officer for National Statistics. Views expressed in this ...
This Economic Letter discusses a topic that at first glance appears to be boring and technical but that in fact turns out to be quite important: the proper interpretation of chain-weighted data. To ...
French president Nicolas Sarkozy drew heat last month when he suggested that countries should factor happiness into their statistics for growth. After all, Sarkozy campaigned on promises of wealth ...
India’s economic growth comes into focus at 4 PM on Friday as the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) releases GDP data under a revised base year of 2022-23, replacing the 2011 ...
Figures for the level and rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) are quoted ubiquitously, including in this magazine. They are widely agreed to tell us something of importance. But there is a ...
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