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Cohabitation harmonised standard

What is harmonisation? Harmonisation is the process of making statistics and data more comparable, consistent and coherent.  This harmonised standard sets out how to collect and report statistics to ensure comparability across different…

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Definition of a household harmonisation guidance

What is harmonisation? Harmonisation is the process of making statistics and data more comparable, consistent and coherent. This guidance is intended to assist statistical producers to improve the consistency of…

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Marital or partnership status harmonised standard

What is harmonisation? Harmonisation is the process of making statistics and data more comparable, consistent and coherent.  This harmonised standard sets out how to collect and report statistics to ensure comparability across…

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User-centred design approach to surveys

What is user-centred design? User-centred design is defined as learning about the needs of those who will use your service and designing it to meet them. In terms of surveys…

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Monitoring and reducing respondent burden

Guidance on monitoring and reducing respondent burden when carrying out statistical surveys.

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Writing about statistics

Please note this guidance does not yet incorporate the accessibility regulations which are now law. It is due to be updated soon.

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Social capital harmonised standard

What is harmonisation? Harmonisation is the process of making statistics and data more comparable, consistent and coherent. This harmonised standard is under development. This page sets out our work to…

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Gender identity data harmonised standard

This interim harmonisation standard and guide is for people who are considering including a question about gender identity on their surveys or within administrative data collection.

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The strategy for the United Kingdom (UK) statistical system

The strategy for the UK statistical system can be found on the strategy page in the "About us" area of the website.

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Long lasting health conditions and illness harmonised standard

The following guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about long-lasting health conditions and illness to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across the Government Statistical Service (GSS).

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