Population

New public policy analysis quarterly review published: The year so far

Categories: ONS, Population, Public Policy, Public Policy Analysis Quarterly Review

New insights on the scale of childhood bereavement, the jobs at risk of automation and how inequality is affecting life expectancy have all come from ONS Public Policy Analysis this year. Following the publishing of the second edition of our quarterly review, Liz McKeown looks back on some of these findings and discusses how you can also input to this review.

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Beware the Ides of March? ONS data reveals which month we are really most likely to die in.   

Categories: Data, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population, Public Policy

A spate of news stories has claimed that March is one of the ‘deadliest’ months with more deaths occurring over the past five years than in most other months. But as Sarah Caul explains, those numbers don’t quite add up.

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Revealing income inequalities: New data sources shed new light on key policy challenge.

Categories: Data, Economy, ONS, Population

High levels of income inequality have been associated with lower economic growth, poor social cohesion and limited social mobility.  But the most effective policy responses need to be informed by the best data. Here Richard Tonkin discusses how the ONS is upgrading its household income statistics to make them more accurate, relevant and accessible than ever before.

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