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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

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

Making sense of cost of living data

Office for National Statistics
December 15, 2022

Categories: Data, Economy, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population

someone on a laptop, they are going through their receipts with a calculator handy

The rising cost of living affects everyone and finding reliable answers to the questions that everyone is asking can be a challenge. The ONS today launched an accessible a cost of living insights tool to help people navigate the wealth of published information on this critical topic.