91% reported their cost of living had increased compared to a year ago, while 77% reported an increase in their cost of living compared to one month ago.
The most frequent reasons reported by adults for the rise in their cost of living over the past month were an increase in:
🛒the price of food shopping (94%)
⚡their gas or electricity bills (76%)
⛽ the price of fuel (53%)
56% adults reported being very or somewhat worried about keeping warm in their home this winter ❄️🏠
Women were more likely than men to say this (61% compared with 50% respectively).
37% of adults currently paying rent or mortgage payments reported finding it very or somewhat difficult to afford these payments.
This appears to be gradually increasing in recent months having been 27% in the period 14 to 25 September 2022.
47% of adults reported they don’t think they will be able to save money in the next 12 months 👛
This compares with 34% a year ago (3 to 14 November 2021).
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.