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Celebrating success at the GSS awards 2019

The awards ceremony for the first annual GSS awards took place at the GSS conference in Edinburgh on Tuesday 1 October. Presented by Deputy National Statistician Iain Bell, the awards celebrated the excellent work being done across the GSS. This was the first GSS conference held in Scotland and to celebrate attendees were led into […]

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How we listened to users to improve housing and planning statistics

Housing statistics are central to government and are developed across many government departments as well as the devolved administrations. The statistics are used for developing policy on topics such as social housing stock, homelessness and housebuilding. They are very important and have far reaching impacts. In 2017, the Office for Statistics Regulation published a cross-government […]

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Quality Street

Does anyone like coffee creams? I for one didn’t shed a tear when they were banished from the selection a few years ago, but the existence of a ‘bring back the coffee cream’ Facebook group suggests that they did have a small but loyal fan base. Could it just be that it’s a matter of […]

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The Code of Practice for Statistics turns one today

I am pleased to be saying happy first birthday to the Code of Practice for Statistics.  Over the last 12 months I have been involved in many different conversations about the use of statistics and I have found the new code to be really helpful in supporting these. As the statistical Head of Profession in […]

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Collaborating with experts to explore advancements in privacy and data confidentiality methods

Today, the Quality Centre in the Best Practice and Impact Division published the National Statistician’s Quality Review (NSQR) of Privacy and Data Confidentiality Methods to support producers of statistics to think strategically about the methods needed to keep pace with changing data sources and technologies. This NSQR outlines the challenges faced and sets out the steps […]

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GangStaS Data RAP

A view point on how initiatives happening across the GSS can do great things together but it’s also a lesson that we need to do better in raising awareness of the things we are doing.

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The Primary and Dental Care and Oral Health Theme Group

The Primary and Dental Care and Oral Health theme group met for the first time in October 2017

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The Health Inequalities Theme Group

The Health Inequalities theme group met for the first time in May 2017. As with the other theme groups, we have been meeting to try and increase the coherence of our statistical outputs and improve the analytical service we provide to decision makers and other users.

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“Table2qb”: what is it, why it’s useful and how we’re using it

The Office for National Statistics and Swirrl are working on Connected Open Government Statistics (COGS), which aims to demonstrate and test an approach for official statistics publishers across government to share their data in a more interoperable and reusable way. During the project we have developed a data transformation tool called “table2qb”. In this post […]

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Start with users needs. It makes things better.

Jonathan Porton and John Lewis blogs on 'Start with users needs. It makes things better'.

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