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18 Nov 2025

Economic Wellbeing Explorer Across Great Britain

An update on some of the insights you can gather across Great Britain in the Explorer.
InsightsEconomic Wellbeing
17 Nov 2025

Webinar: Launch of the Economic Wellbeing Explorer

The launch of the Economic Wellbeing Explorer, a pioneering data and insight platform designed to shine a light on the drivers of economic wellbeing
EventInsightsEconomic Wellbeing
Rui Cardoso shows his laptop to Adrian Ramsay MP
11 Nov 2025

Smart data for smarter policy: Reflections on Evidence Week 2025

We were in Westminster to advocate for the inclusion of smart data in the evidence base for policy making.
PolicyResearchLegislation
7 Nov 2025

From Macro to Micro: Complementing Regional Analyses with Smart Data Foundry

We explore financial wellbeing with TPI to illustrate how top-down regional analyses can be enriched with bottom-up insights accessible to researchers
ResearchPartnershipEconomic Wellbeing
3 Nov 2025

Updates from the October Economic Nowcast

Across GB average proportion of people living beyond their means is 13%
NowcastInsightsEconomic Wellbeing
Coins stacked in piles next to a small plant
13 Oct 2025

Exploring Regional Differences in Scotland's Economic Wellbeing

35% of Scottish people have low emergency resilience.
InsightsEconomic WellbeingIncome VolatilityCost of Living Crisis
13 Oct 2025

Closing the Affordability Gap: An Archetype-Led Pathway to Retrofit Delivery

The study grouped homes based on their construction and age, and then estimated energy savings and retrofit costs for different levels of retrofitting
ResearchFINDS
A map of the UK overlayed on a graph going up a down
2 Oct 2025

Insights from September’s Economic Nowcast

Incomes shrink by 1.53%, and an extra 50,000 people are now struggling to make ends meet.
NowcastInsightsEconomic Wellbeing
17 Sep 2025

Unlocking new insights: Covid Income and Spend Dynamics research datasets now in the FINDS data catalogue

Covid Income and Spend Dynamics research datasets (2019-2024) now in the FINDS data catalogue
FINDSResearch

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