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Revealed: ONS blames Ring doorbells for dodgy jobs data

5 February 2025

2:26 AM

5 February 2025

2:26 AM

What caused the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to lose faith in its own jobs figures? After the pandemic, the ONS asked for the ‘national statistic’ quality mark to be taken off its estimates of whether Brits are working when response rates to its labour force survey collapsed. Fewer and fewer people were willing to invite an interviewer into their home to give them the 45-minute questionnaire.

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