Across the third quarter of 2021 as a whole GDP grew 1.3% following the continued easing of #coronavirus restrictions ow.ly/mMGf50GL4tC
Commenting on today’s figures, ONS Chief Economist Grant Fitzner said: (1/4)
Grant Fitzner continued: (2/4)
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Grant Fitzner went on to say: (4/4)
Total underlying goods imports grew £2.3bn (5.9%) in September led by a £2.2bn (11.2%) growth in imports from non-EU countries.
Total underlying goods exports grew £0.5bn (1.9%) in September 2021 led by a £0.7bn (5.7%) growth in exports to the EU ow.ly/jrmp50GL4Gl
Read our new article showing how we produce monthly and quarterly GDP and why this has an impact on estimating where the economy is relative to its pre-pandemic level ow.ly/pJuH50GL8oj
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We've led the development of a new method for estimating the number of excess deaths across UK countries.
Julie Stanborough talks us through the data released today and how this new method will give us a better understanding in this complex area ➡️ ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Expected number of deaths used to calculate excess mortality is now estimated from age-specific mortality rates rather than death counts, so changes in population size and age structure are taken into account. Our new method also accounts for trends in population mortality rates.
In 2023, the new method estimates 10,994 excess deaths in the UK, which is 20,448 fewer than the current method.
We've published a new article exploring the disability, health status, ethnic group, religion and employment of people of different sexual orientations (aged 16 years and over) in England and Wales using #Census2021 data.
#Census2021 included a voluntary question about sexual orientation of usual residents aged 16 and over:
▪️ 89.4% said they were straight or heterosexual
▪️ 3.2% identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation (LGB+)
▪️ 7.5% did not respond to the question
People who identified as LGB+ were younger on average, with a far higher proportion aged between 16 and 34 years (57.9%) than in the overall population of England and Wales (29.6%).
However, different LGB+ sexual orientation groups had markedly different age distributions.