Data

Driving forward improvements to health and social care statistics

Categories: Data, Disability, Health, ONS, Wellbeing
Hospital corridor

From December 2023 to March 2024, the ONS with our partners in health statistics jointly ran the health and social care statistical outputs consultation. The aim was to gather valuable user feedback, to help shape health and social care data in the future. The consultation looked at the health statistical system as a whole and invited comments on outputs published by key health data producers. As the results of the consultation are published, Greg Ceely explains how this feedback will drive improvements to our health statistics. 

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Building a picture of climate impacts on health

Categories: Data, Environment, Health, International, ONS, Wellbeing

In February 2022, ONS began a four-year project, funded by Wellcome, to develop the first set of official metrics to measure the impact of climate change on health. This will unlock a wealth of new insight, giving countries greater ability to plan services and policies in the face of a range of climate health challenges. As the ONS publishes details of this new statistical framework, Myer Glickman explains the next steps in this important work.

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Bringing data to life: pricing up the cost of living

Categories: Data, Economy, Education, Office for National Statistics, ONS

What does an air fryer, a loaf of bread and vinyl records have in common? Well, these are just a few of the items tracked by the ONS to help us determine how the prices of a wide range of goods and services change annually in the UK. That’s the subject of our next webinar in the ‘Bringing data to life’ series.

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Learning how local data can influence policy

Categories: Data, Economy, ONS, ONS Local, Population
Map of the UK made up of dots

ONS Local is a service from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that offers tailored data and insights to local authorities and communities. Emma Hickman writes about a recent ‘datathon’ where the script was flipped. Teams of local leaders delved directly into the data themselves to investigate a problem their area was facing.

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Bringing Data to Life: The value of environmental statistics

Categories: Data, Education, Environment, Office for National Statistics, ONS

How does the data we collect help us to measure climate change? What is the ‘green economy’? And how do our Natural Capital Accounts help us to better understand the economic and social value of the UK’s natural resources?

These questions and more will be answered by the ONS team as part of an online event taking place on Tuesday 22nd October.

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