{"id":246735,"date":"2025-11-06T05:56:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246735\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:56:17","slug":"uk-stats-office-prepares-to-cut-back-data-after-doing-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246735\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Stats Office Prepares to Cut Back Data After \u2018Doing Too Much\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Britain\u2019s embattled statistics agency will stop producing swathes of its data after a crisis affecting crucial economic figures was worsened by it \u201cdoing too much, too quickly and on too many fronts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Office for National Statistics has been producing an unsustainable amount of figures while struggling to get enough households to answer surveys underpinning the most important economic estimates, according to James Benford, its director general of economic statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s embattled statistics agency will stop producing swathes of its data after a crisis affecting crucial economic figures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13514,84,5343,1294,80,57,1431,2924,388,81775,229,2023,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-246735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-august","tag-business","tag-culture","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-great-britain","tag-inflation","tag-labor","tag-london","tag-office-for-national-statisti","tag-politics","tag-retail","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}