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Harmonised standard for previous UK armed forces service

This guidance is intended to assist statistical producers to improve the consistency of their statistics. It helps users compare and combine statistics, when appropriate. It also suggests where to go to find further information.

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Welsh language skills harmonised standard

This guidance is intended to assist statistical producers to improve the consistency of their statistics. It helps users compare and combine statistics, when appropriate. It also suggests where to go to find further information.

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Data visualisation: colours

Guidance on using colours in data visualisations.

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Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation Team workplan

This workplan reflects the work of the GSS Harmonisation Team based in the Office for National Statistics for 2022 onwards.

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Socio-economic background harmonised standard

We are currently designing harmonised standards for collecting data on socio-economic background. This will be added to the guidance on this page.

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Using symbols and shorthand in tables

This guidance provides a consistent shorthand to be used within presentation tables and spreadsheets published by the public sector.

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Reporting concerns under the Code of Practice for Statistics

This guidance sets out how producers of official statistics should raise concerns about compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics.

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GSS subnational data strategy

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Ethnicity harmonised standard

This harmonised standard is under development.

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Quality assurance of code for analysis and research

This guidance has been written to support analysts in government who use coding in their work. This includes those who produce statistics, carry out modelling or apply data science.

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