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Trouble at the Office of National Statistics continues with staff churn, failing methods & funding problems all undermining reliability of the data on which Govt. depends for formulating policy.
The potential difference between ONS & independent assessment (here by the Resolution Foundation) of employment suggest labour market policy (especially regarding the 'economically inactive') may be misconceived (which many would argue anyway).
In a sense Labour *is* flying blind
@ChrisMayLA6 as we’ve suffered decades of “policy-based evidence” (can’t remember who said this) as opposed to the evidence-based policy governments should deploy, how would anyone know?
As an aside, I'm external examining a PhD on Evidence Based Policy which is situating data around COVID into a framework derived from Susan Strange's idea of structural power in knowledge.... so far (only just started reading it), looks interesting on exactly this relationship between evidence based policy & policy based evidence...