Office for National Statistics

Working to improve housing, planning and homelessness statistics across the UK

Categories: Data, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population
House building in Bristol

High quality housing, planning and homelessness statistics are key areas of focus for governments across the four nations of the UK and their citizens. There is a need for a greater understanding of housing affordability, levels of homelessness and housing stock. Debra Prestwood explains the continuing collaboration the ONS is leading across the Government Statistical Service (GSS) to improve statistics in these areas.

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Coronavirus Deaths: Understanding ONS data on mortality and vaccination status

Categories: Coronavirus, Data, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population
Stock vaccine image

Throughout the pandemic the Office for National Statistics has been providing timely data and analysis of the deaths caused by Coronavirus (COVID-19). During 2021 an important part of this work is measurement of mortality by vaccination status. In this post Charlotte Bermingham explains why we use internationally-recognised methods to ensure comparability across all our releases and how the analysis so far should be interpreted.

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Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 – What can the COVID-19 Infection Survey tell us?

Categories: Coronavirus, Office for National Statistics, ONS
A medical professional prepares an injection

As well as providing estimates on infection levels and antibodies, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey (CIS) collects information from participants on their vaccination status, providing some insight into vaccine effectiveness on variants, including Delta.

Our monthly visits to the same participants over an extended period allow us to see who becomes infected over time. Sarah Crofts explains more about our work on vaccine effectiveness:

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