I assisted in writing Business Cases following Green Book Guidance, mainly working on the Strategic Case element which details the case for change and wider fit with public policy. I researched and produced economic narratives for schemes we were involved in. This involves researching relevant statistics to provide a summary of the area of the scheme, i.e. population demographics, key sectors of the economy.I worked on cost-benefit analysis models using Excel to calculate the present value of costs and benefits to come up with a value for money estimate.

I worked in the Economic well-being team. This role mainly consisted of working on the Quarterly Economic Wellbeing publication which looks at the measures of economic wellbeing in the UK using indicators beyond the traditional measures such as GDP per head.I assisted on the Household Satellite Accounts, this measures the value of unpaid production in the UK. I used SAS to calculate the value of informal and formal hours of childcare and adult care across all four regions of the UK. I contacted different organisations to get data we needed to produce the publication. I had to find workaround in areas that had stopped producing statistics using methods such as applying previous growth rates.