Economic forecasting

Our economic research team is one of the largest in the country, devoted to analysing national, regional and local economies for a range of public and private sector clients. Our statisticians, econometricians, sociologists, geographers, market researchers and economists carry out extensive research into the underlying drivers of social, economic and market change.

The way we work has several key characteristics:

• Investment in our intellectual capital to create a pool of understanding and knowledge that feeds into everything we do and gives us a wide perspective on any particular issue

• A sound, theory-based approach that makes sense of patchy and often unreliable data, and provides a basis for a clear analysis of the issues and solutions

• A thorough understanding of the pros and cons of data sources, combined with the ability to process, synthesise and make sense of large amounts of data from official and other sources

• We work with clients to develop solutions, and provide first-rate client support with access to key staff

• Our results are delivered in a variety of formats to meet client requirements - paper and electronic reports, presentations, models and web-based products