The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals offer a blueprint to global prosperity. ONS is leading an effort to provide our international partner countries with an open-source reporting platform for them. Christopher Norris, who recently worked with the Ghana Statistical Service, reports on how the African nation is working to get this vital data online.
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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.
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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.
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The ONS has developed new methods to work out how many people die while homeless, and today we have been able to publish our first figures for England and Wales. Deputy Director for Health Analysis and Life Events, Ben Humberstone explains.
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Earlier this year, we asked people who use census data what they thought of our plans for 2021 Census outputs. Suzanne Dunsmith, Head of 2021 Census Outputs and Dissemination, reveals the results of our public consultation.
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