title: Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence
text: # Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence
  
  The Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence is an economics research institute in central London, established by the ONS.
  
  ## History
  
  ESCoE was founded by a consortium of British university business schools, including Strathclyde Business School, with the ONS in 2017.
  
  ## Structure
  
  It is housed at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in central London.
  
  Its purpose is to produce added inference from the UK economic data collated by the ONS.
  
  