A change in the standard of proof for how suicides are recorded that occurred in 2018 and increasing delays in the time taken for suicides to be registered have created challenges for ONS in communicating our suicide statistics. In this blog, David Mais, Head of Mortality Statistics, explores how these developments are changing our releases.
Read more on How suicide statistics are changing Today, the ONS has published updated statistics on suicides among higher education students using improved methods to provide more accurate information. In this blog David Mais summarises these changes and the steps we have taken to assure their quality.
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Without high-quality population statistics, making good decisions on resource allocation and proper planning for public services is almost impossible. But we know that producing statistics that are robust and reliable relies on us truly understanding the needs of people using them, and responding to those needs. Rich Pereira explains how we engage with our users to do this.
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Migration is one of the most talked about issues in the UK today—and at the ONS, our job is to measure it. In our next Bringing Data to Life webinar, taking place on Tuesday 22 July from 4pm to 5pm, we’ll take you behind the numbers to show exactly how we estimate international migration, what the latest data are telling us, and why the figures sometimes change.
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The Office for National Statistics produces subnational population projections (SNPPs) to give users an indication of the potential future population size of English local authorities and health geographies. Today we’ve released our 2022-based SNPPs which will be widely used in planning, for example, health, education and housing. We don’t know exactly what will happen in a local area in 10- or 20-years’ time, so offer a range of scenarios, or variants, so decision makers can use the right projection for their needs. In today’s bulletin, we focus on the ‘migration category variant’. James Robards explains what this is and why we’re using this approach.
Read more on The potential future direction of local population change: the power of variant projections