Dave Rawnsley explores how question design and definitions give a unique picture of the changing social and geographic nature of the UK’s population across the past fifty years.
Professor David Martin, Deputy Director of the UK Data Service, discusses how the UK censuses have adapted to change over the past sixty years and some of the challenges we face in 2021/22.
We welcome Andy Dudfield from Full Fact, who explains the importance of fact checking and how the UK Data Service supports Full Fact’s work.
In the final post in her mini-series, Sarah Knight looks at why the SafePod Network is a positive innovation for researchers.
The first data from the 2021 census has been released. These statistics are produced by the Northern Ireland Statics and Research Agency (NISRA) and are also available from the UK Data Service.
In the second post in her mini-series, Sarah Knight tells us what it was like to book and use the SafePod at the University of York.
The SafePod Network is a brand new way to access secure data. In this first post in a mini-series this week, Sarah Knight looks into what SafePods are and why they are so important.
Eric Jensen and Mark Reed, in the second of two blog posts, explore who benefited from data-intensive research in the UK and Australia.
Georgia Andrews and Louise Arsenault share an update on the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures: who uses it, what’s new and what planned next steps are.