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Looking after and using data for public benefit

Heather Savory
January 16, 2019

Categories: Data, Office for National Statistics, ONS

Improved access to datasets including those held by other government bodies will allow ONS to advance its mission of providing the UK with better statistics for better decisions. But with new data sharing powers comes a heightened responsibility to protect personal information. As revised policies on the use, management and security of data are published Heather Savory explains how ONS is putting the public interest first.

Designing the future of ONS surveys

Laura Wilson
January 10, 2019

Categories: Data, Office for National Statistics, ONS

Social surveys remain vital to the work of ONS – but maintaining response rates is a serious issue for statistical agencies worldwide. To preserve their value and relevance surveys must evolve : how they look, how they work and how they are completed. Here Laura Wilson reveals how ONS is taking on the challenge.

The Twelve Stats of Christmas

editor
December 7, 2018

Categories: Office for National Statistics, ONS

Ten lords a leaping, three wise men, two turtle doves. Christmas really is all about stats.

This week Pete Benton, Director of Data Collection at ONS, treated BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright and his afternoon audience to a festive feast of seasonal statistics.

Mind the gap: why the UK might not be the most regionally unequal country

Richard Prothero
November 23, 2018

Categories: ONS

The relative prosperity of our nations and regions has been under scrutiny again with claims that the UK’s regional inequalities are among the world’s most extreme. But when our regional divide is compared with those of other countries it’s often a case of not comparing like with like.

Keeping the census relevant in a changing world

Ian Cope
February 8, 2017

Categories: Census, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population

In an era when ‘national treasures’ come and go, it’s rare to find something that’s earned the public’s trust and affection generation after generation. But every 10 years, residents in England and Wales take the time to participate in the census. Ian Cope explains how we’re already planning for 2021.