Understanding ONS statistics on patient deaths.
Jamie Jenkins looks at the ONS data behind news stories on deaths from starvation and thirst. “You may have…
Read more on Understanding ONS statistics on patient deaths. Happy New Year? Glenn Everett on the National Well-being Programme
“The happiness gap: how happy days are here again – but not for all”, “Women no longer the happier…
Read more on Happy New Year? Glenn Everett on the National Well-being ProgrammeGood Stats for Good Evidence – Emma Rourke on how ONS influences key decisions.
ONS’ public policy analysis divisions collectively produce hundreds of statistics each year. But how are they used? Are we supplying…
Read more on Good Stats for Good Evidence – Emma Rourke on how ONS influences key decisions.Empty desks – why evidence of absence does not mean absence of evidence!
One of the favourite ONS-related memes our social media team come across is the ‘Empty IPS desk’. Someone tweets a…
Read more on Empty desks – why evidence of absence does not mean absence of evidence!John’s Turing Lecture: Mobilising the power of data to help Britain make better decisions
“When I wrote the introductory post in this blog a few weeks ago, I said that our purpose was to…
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