This is the description that follows the title at the top of the page. The summary should:

• tell users what the article is about
• be under 160 characters including spaces; long summaries will cut off in search engine results
• begin with the most important information (avoid using phrases like “This article covers…”)
• tell users if the article contains Experimental Statistics; include a sentence at the end with “Experimental Statistics”
• not be a technical definition of the topic; you can do this in the article if needed

Analysis articles
Prevalence, long-term trends and types of domestic abuse experienced by adults based on findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and police recorded crime.

Earnings and employment for disabled and non-disabled people in the UK, raw disability pay gaps and factors that affect pay for disabled people.

Information articles
How the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the wider containment efforts are expected to impact on UK productivity estimates, and challenges on data collection.

Annual progress update on our transformation of population, migration and social statistics.

Any abbreviations should be written out in full in the summary and the abbreviation included in brackets. For example, CSEW should be written as Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). 

If there are any other terms that users are searching for, include these in the keywords. Both the summary and the keywords contribute to search, so you do not need to duplicate terms.

The Content Design team can help you write short, concise and frontloaded article summaries. Email Content.Design@ons.gov.uk.