The coronavirus pandemic has made measuring the size and changing nature of the UK population more challenging, particularly with many of…
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The onset of the coronavirus pandemic early last year has had huge impacts on many aspects of our everyday lives,…
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In the post-Brexit period, official trade statistics are being scrutinised as never before. It’s been noted that the UK figures from the ONS appear to tell a different story from those released by Eurostat, the EU’s own statistical agency. In this post Matt Hughes examines those discrepancies and explains why they don’t mean one side is necessarily wrong.
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Knife enabled crime is a serious social issue which has devastating consequences for families and communities. Over recent years, the…
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Over the past year, much has been written on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of children and adults. The Office for National Statistics has been working to monitor the effect of the last year’s events on people’s personal well-being and mental health. Two new pieces of analysis have been published today, providing early insights into self-reported depression in adults during the early 2021 lockdown, and experimental analysis of the number of depression diagnoses by GPs during the early stages of the pandemic in 2020. Here the authors Tim Vizard and Theo Joloza give the latest picture of what we know about depression and adults during the pandemic so far.
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