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The guidance hub contains resources and reference information to help you with all aspects of your analytical work.

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Identifying stakeholders

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This guidance includes information about how to identify stakeholders who may be interested in engaging with your statistical outputs. If you would like further information after reading this guidance, please contact Engagement.Hub@ons.gov.uk. There are resources linked throughout this guidance.

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An Introductory Guide to Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)

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This guide provides a general introduction to Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). You can use it in any context, but there is some emphasis on decision making in the public sector.

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Challenging assumption-based design: red and green flag statements

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Guidance to accompany a set of posters promoting the importance of evidence-based design.

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Stakeholder mapping

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This guidance includes reasons and processes for mapping stakeholders for user engagement.

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Understanding the difference between official statistics and published management information

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Guidance from the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) that sets out the essential characteristics of official statistics and published management information.

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Data sharing for national crisis response

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A guide covering basic principles and best practice for sharing data, analysis, and statistics between government organisations in times of national crisis and to meet urgent operational need.

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