Statistics: UK Government

ONS is the UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK. You can browse by theme, regions, publications, data sets or view the release calendar. There is also a keyword search option. The interface is similar to that of the UK National Statistical Publication Hub but searches on the ONS site will find documents published during the last five years. If you are looking for publications or datasets older than that you should use the search options on the Publication Hub.

This is a new national service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which consolidates and incorporates the following established data services and websites:
• Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS)
• Census.ac.uk
• More than 6,000 collections of high quality social and economic data can be accessed including:
• UK census data (1971-2011)
• UK survey data
• Cross-national survey data
• International macro databanks
• Cohort and longitudinal studies
• Business microdata
• Qualitative and mixed methods data
Users can search and browse for all aspects of economic and social data, including Census data, using the new search engine Discover. Access to Discover does not require registration. However, to download data, or to analyse it online where possible, does require registration with the UK Data Service. The UK Data Service also includes ESDS Qualidata.

The Publication Hub is the first port of call for anyone who is looking for statistics released by government departments in the UK. It is the central website where the planned publication dates of new statistical data are announced in advance. The Publication Hub itself does not produce any statistics but provides a means of searching for data across all government departments. You can browse by theme or region, view the release calendar or search using keywords.