Informing the election
Miles Fletcher reveals how ONS expertise helped the UK’s national news broadcasters to make their election coverage data-rich and statistically accurate.
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The 2021 Census will be the UK’s first predominantly online census. For future decades ONS is exploring the possibility of a Census based on linking together administrative data supported by survey information.
Becky Tinsley on how ONS is refining its approach to gathering and using administrative data – information people have already supplied to other government bodies – to produce census-type outputs.
Read more on Beyond 2021 – transforming the CensusThe wealth of regions – measuring the UK’s tax and spending imbalance
Experimental statistics from ONS have suggested that only three UK regions generate more in taxes than they receive in public spending. The data has caused a stir in the media with headlines proclaiming that London and its surrounding regions are effectively ‘subsidising’ the rest . Jonathan Athow explains how the figures were calculated and how ONS is looking to develop and improve them.
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Preparations are well underway for the 2021 Census with a major test exercise now being carried out. Ben Humberstone reflects on the journey to-date.
Read more on A good start for the 2017 TestIt’s all about inclusion: how ONS plans to support the digital have-nots.
With more than a fifth of the population still offline, Sharon Bexley explains the importance of assisted digital support for the census – and the future.
Read more on It’s all about inclusion: how ONS plans to support the digital have-nots.