Housing market stats: not quite as safe as houses
The Office for National Statistics has expressed concern over the quality and timeliness of some official housing market data.
In the second stage of the ONS’s review of housing market statistics, which has just been published, it calls for greater accessibility of housing-related stats, more availability and greater punctuality of local-level figures, and the introduction of a private rental price index. Read more
The Japan-China trading relationship: semiconductors and clothes
Tension between China and Japan over the East China Sea is threatening to disrupt the strong trade relationship between the two countries.
In July Japan exported a higher value of goods to China than to Europe or to north America. It also imported a higher value of goods from China than from north America and Europe combined, and about the same amount as from the rest of Asia combined. Read more
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Kate Allen works in the editorial statistics team in London. She previously specialised in housing data reporting for a national trade magazine.
Chris Cook is the FT's executive comment editor. After joining the FT in 2008 as a Peter Martin Fellow, he worked for two years as a leader writer and then as education correspondent.
Emily Cadman joined the FT in 2010 and is head of the interactive desk.
Martin Stabe works on the FT's interactive team, specialising in databases for interactive graphics.
Keith Fray heads the editorial statistics team, providing data for articles and graphics. His background is in economics, studying at Birkbeck College, London.
Norma Cohen is the FT's Demography Correspondent.
Valentina Romei is a statistical researcher at the FT. She joined the FT in 2008 after working both as an academic and market researcher.
