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A summary of the key methods and findings that inform potential updates to the harmonised ethnicity standard.
Learn more on Review of the ethnicity harmonised standard: findings from the review of ‘write-in’ responsesThis report summarises the main findings from the second phase of our work to review the current long lasting health conditions and illness harmonised standard, activity restriction harmonised standard, and impairment harmonised standard.
Learn more on Review of disability data harmonised standards: findings from phase 2 of our researchA summary of the research undertaken to inform the development of a more inclusive and flexible question format for the ethnicity harmonised standard.
Learn more on Review of the ethnicity harmonised standard: overview of our redesign research to dateThis guidance outlines several important points to remember when writing about data. It provides a concise summary of existing guidance to help you communicate your analysis in a clear and engaging way.
Learn more on Writing about dataThe guidance provides examples of some of the statistical tools and techniques used by statisticians, statistical data scientists, and others involved in producing statistics in the UK Civil Service.
Learn more on Guide to Government Statistical Service (GSS) techniques and toolsThe Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation team are undertaking priority work to develop best practice harmonised standards for the topic of sex and gender identity data.
Learn more on Sex harmonisation guidanceThe Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation team are currently working to develop a new gender identity data harmonised standard. This page provides interim guidance for collecting data on gender identity.
Learn more on Gender identity data harmonisation guidanceThis update provides an overview of the GSS Harmonisation team’s review of the ethnicity harmonised standard. It sets out additional work they are undertaking to further understand user need and explore potential new tick-box response options.
Learn more on Review of the ethnicity harmonised standard: additional work to explore potential new response optionsThis question bank aims to help analysts understand administrative data quality. The questions can be used as an assessment tool when producing statistics and conducting research using administrative data.
Learn more on Introducing the Administrative Data Quality Question BankThis guidance outlines the inclusivity and accessibility considerations that need to be made during survey development. It aims to increase the understanding of inclusivity and accessibility in survey design, and the risks of not incorporating them.
Learn more on Inclusivity and accessibility in survey development