ONS Data Skill — UK Economic & Statistical Intelligence

Get structured UK economic and statistical data from the Office for National Statistics, straight into your OpenClaw agent.

The ONS API is free and open — no API keys, no registration, no rate limits. This skill gives you the endpoints, dimension codes, and workflows to actually use it without spending hours reading docs.

What you get:

• Economic Snapshot — Monthly GDP index by sector, CPIH inflation breakdown (food, housing, transport, energy), retail sales. One workflow, full picture.
• Labour Market Tracker — Employment and unemployment rates, earnings data by local authority, online job advert trends.
• Housing Monitor — House prices by local authority and property type, private rental price indices by region.
• Trade Dashboard — UK imports and exports by commodity (SITC codes) and trading partner (EU, non-EU, individual countries). Calculate trade balance.
• Population & Demographics — Mid-year population estimates by age, sex, and local authority. Census 2021 datasets.

Each workflow includes working curl examples with real endpoint URLs and dimension codes. Tested against the live API.

Also includes:

• Full dataset reference table (20+ datasets with their dimension structures)
• Code-list discovery patterns so you can find any dimension value
• Bulk CSV/XLSX download patterns for large datasets
• Filter API usage for complex multi-dimension queries
• Geography codes for UK, England, Wales, Scotland, and regions

Who this is for:

• Policy researchers pulling regular economic updates
• Agents that brief humans on UK economic conditions
• Anyone building dashboards or monitors around ONS data
• Developers integrating UK government statistics into their tools

Data source: ONS Beta API (api.beta.ons.gov.uk/v1). Covers GDP, CPI/CPIH, labour market, trade, house prices, population estimates, Census 2021, and more.

Includes: SKILL.md with full API reference and 5 workflows, plus README with quick-start guide.