New work to fill evidence gaps on disability, job quality and domestic abuse are among the projects delivered by ONS Public Policy Analysis in recent months. For Liz McKeown, the ability to work collaboratively across government and beyond is key to providing new insight on topics that matter.
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Child abuse is an appalling crime against some of the most vulnerable in society. It’s something that’s not often discussed or well understood, and there has been a lack of complete statistics. The Office for National Statistics has been working to produce the most comprehensive picture possible by incorporating questions into the Crime Survey for England and Wales and analysing this alongside other sources of data, which can only tell a partial story. Here Meghan Elkin explains how bringing data sources together helps us better understand both the nature of child abuse and the potential demand on support services.
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2019 was another big year for the Office for National Statistics (ONS), filled with better data, new headlines and exciting…
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The latest ONS estimate values the ‘human capital’ of the United Kingdom at £21.4 trillion. It’s a staggering figure but what does it mean? Put simply, human capital is the economic value of the skills, knowledge and experience of the UK workforce. Richard Tonkin explains how the figures are put together and how the ONS plans to take a far broader view of human capital in the future.
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Award-winning work on homelessness, world-leading progress in measuring sustainable development and the transformation of the UK’s migration estimates are just three current projects in ONS Public Policy Analysis. They show how the ONS is uniquely placed to harness the potential of new data sources and answer important questions facing Britain today.
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