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Happy New Year? Glenn Everett on the National Well-being Programme

  • Glenn Everett
  • January 6, 2017
Categories: Wellbeing

  “The happiness gap: how happy days are here again – but not for all”, “Women no longer the happier…

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Good Stats for Good Evidence – Emma Rourke on how ONS influences key decisions.

  • Emma Rourke
  • December 29, 2016
Categories: Data

ONS’ public policy analysis divisions collectively produce hundreds of statistics each year.  But how are they used?  Are we supplying…

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Empty desks – why evidence of absence does not mean absence of evidence!

  • Ed Dunn
  • December 21, 2016
Categories: Population

One of the favourite ONS-related memes our social media team come across is the ‘Empty IPS desk’.  Someone tweets a…

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John’s Turing Lecture: Mobilising the power of data to help Britain make better decisions

  • John Pullinger
  • December 20, 2016
Categories: Data

“When I wrote the introductory post in this blog a few weeks ago, I said that our purpose was to…

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ONS in Africa: Pooling expertise to make better statistics

  • Pete Lee
  • December 13, 2016
Categories: Economy

Senior ONS statistician Pete Lee has been helping to strengthen Zimbabwe’s economic data. It’s part of an international commitment to give…

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