The ONS measures construction output from the activity of business in Britain, not including Northern Ireland, which conducts its own equivalent survey.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which measures the output of the country's goods and services, dropped an annual rate of 1.8% in the latest quarter - a much steeper decline than even the most pessimistic economists had predicted.
The economic burden of the tax system, which measures the lost economic output from a tax system that penalizes productive behavior.
Gross domestic product, which measures total goods and service output within U.S. borders, was slightly weaker than the 0.7% Wall Street had expected.
On the other hand employers have driven down the rate of unemployment faster than was thought possible and confidence measures validate the recovery in output.
On October 4th Quacquarelli Symonds, an education consultancy, published the first regional ranking of Latin American universities, combining measures of reputation, research output, academics' qualifications and staff-student ratios.
The GDP measures the country's total output of goods and services.
But this part of the pie is shrinking too: fiscal-austerity measures took 0.7% off output over the past year.
In 2006, the first year of the plan, the country's reduction in energy intensity, which measures energy consumption per unit of economic output, was a mere 1.23%.
He insists that industry, as well as governments, must tackle the core issues, rather than trying to rid themselves of responsibility through measures like carbon offsetting - where individuals or companies balance their carbon output by financing green projects.
The result is important because governments were encouraged by the original paper to take drastic steps, such as severe austerity measures, to avoid borrowing any more money once their borrowing reached 90% of annual output.
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