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How ethnicity recording differs across health data sources and the impact on analysis

Rose Drummond
January 16, 2023

Categories: Census, Data, Health, Office for National Statistics, Office for Statistics Regulation, ONS

With growing concerns about the mortality outcomes for different ethnic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers worked quickly to understand…

The Year in Numbers

Ian Diamond
December 23, 2022

Categories: Census, Coronavirus, Data, Economy, Environment, Health, ONS, Population, Wellbeing

To mark the end of 2022, the National Statistician Professor Sir Ian Diamond, looks back on another year of notable statistics which saw the release of over 1,000 publications from the Office for National Statistics.

PODCAST: The Year in Review

Statistically Speaking
December 21, 2022

Categories: Census, Data, Economy, Environment, Health, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population, Public Policy, Wellbeing

It has been another momentous year for the Office for National Statistics. National Statistician, Sir Ian Diamond, joins Miles in…

The Bigger Picture: Using the COVID-19 Infection Survey to track other infections

Lina Lloyd and Charlotte Murphy
December 15, 2022

Categories: Coronavirus, Health, Office for National Statistics, ONS

a picture of test tubes with chemical symbols in the background

The ONS, the University of Oxford and the UK Health Security Agency are conducting a pilot study to determine whether…

What have we learned about the experience of disabled people?

Helen Colvin and Josephine Foubert
December 2, 2022

Categories: Data, Health, ONS, Population, Public Policy, Wellbeing

Two adults are helping a child work on a laptop

Tomorrow (3 December) is the UN International Day for Persons with Disabilities. With the most recent estimates from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) putting the proportion of disabled people in the UK at 22% in 2021 (up from 19% a decade ago), this is a sizeable and very diverse group. Here, Helen Colvin and Josephine Foubert from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) look at some of the work we have been doing recently to give insight into the lives of disabled children and adults.