A new way to measure healthy life expectancy
Healthy life expectancy is an important measure to understand not just how long people are living, but how long they…
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Utilising data to better understand women’s health is a key government priority. The Women’s Health Strategy for England has outlined the existing evidence gaps and demonstrated that more research is needed. With that in mind, the ONS has carried out the first population level study of its kind to explore the characteristics of women with an endometriosis diagnosis in England. Here, Dr Isobel Ward explains the research and why it is so important.
Read more on A better understanding of endometriosis in EnglandBringing data to life: Get a healthy dose of data in our final webinar of 2024
Join us on Thursday 12 December to learn about people’s changing life expectancy, what the picture of health looks like across the country, and how we are continually ‘taking the pulse’ of our nation.
Read more on Bringing data to life: Get a healthy dose of data in our final webinar of 2024Developing our international migration estimates
ONS is transforming the way it produces international migration statistics. It has done so against the backdrop of significant change in the UK and abroad. Here Mary Gregory describes how ONS continues to understand more, not only about new data sources, but also changing behaviours of migrants and how that affects the estimates.
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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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