Office for National Statistics (ONS) Economic Forum

Welcome to the monthly Economic Forum. The event showcases the latest economic and social developments with a wide range of analytic topics. Each month we will feature a presentation on the ‘State of the Economy’, providing a summary of the latest trends and developments.

Presentations this month

Energy Spending by Businesses

We present our analysis of businesses’ energy spending from:

• the Annual Business Survey 2019
• the Annual Purchases Survey 2018

We will also present our analysis of the resulting experimental measures of energy intensity.

We present how energy intensity varies across and within industries, by energy type and firm size, and depending on the type of measure used.

Tightness in the Labour Market

We will be presenting analysis of various measures of labour market slack, and the relationship between industry unemployment and vacancies.