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Category: Community and Society

Why do older generations benefit more from volunteering?

  • 25 February 2022

Hei Wan (Karen) Mak on the health benefits of volunteering and how Understanding Society data provides new insights into the links with age, cohort, and neighbourhood deprivation.

Using GIS and spatial data to tackle real-world challenges

  • 18 October 2021

Nadia Kennar, Research Associate from the UK Data Service, explains the benefits of creating rich spatial data, and how GIS analysis can improve understanding of location-based problems and feed into better policy making.

Census 2021: Considering user needs for public, safeguarded, and secure data

  • 20 September 2021

Helena Rosiecka discusses Census 2021 data outputs. She also considers the importance of user needs, and how the Office for National Statistics is working to improve census data outputs.

Census 2021 Outputs: Hiding an elephant amongst all the hippopotamuses

  • 29 June 2021

Stephanie Blanchard introduces the Office for National Statistics’ approaches to ensuring individuals and households aren’t identifiable in the 2021 Census outputs.

What happened to unpaid caring during the COVID-19 pandemic?

  • 8 June 2021

During Carers Week, Anne Alarilla, Fiona Grimm and Mai Stafford explored who was providing care during the second wave of the pandemic and why this is important.

Understanding ethnic inequalities in later life: Disseminating findings through video

  • 19 May 2021

Dr Sarah Stopforth introduces a video presenting findings from the Ethnic Inequalities in Later Life research project.

#DataImpact2021 – continuing the discussion

  • 6 May 2021

#DataImpact2021 raised many interesting questions from participants. Dr Dharmi Kapadia gives her thoughts on three questions posed.

‘Output Area’ or ‘Small Area’? Challenges and opportunities within UK census geographies

  • 29 March 2021

As part of our continuing census series, James Reid introduces the opportunities, challenges and solutions when approaching different geographies in the UK censuses. 

The ebb and flow of UK census data

  • 23 March 2021

Oliver Duke-Williams and Vassilis Routsis explore changes in the census and the importance of origin-destination or flow data.

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