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The Health Case for Basic Income

  • 31 October 2023

Matthew Johnson and Elliott Johnson introduce our impact case study discussing the Health Case for Basic Income.

Is Britain Fairer? What do the data tell us?

  • 9 February 2021

Karen Hurrell from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and panellist for #DataImpact2021, explores how data help the Commission assess ‘Is Britain Fairer?’ 

How does the minimum wage impact on employment and hours?

  • 6 October 2020

James Cockett, one of our #DataImpactFellows, discusses research he undertook with colleagues at the Institute for Employment Studies to investigate the impact of the introduction of the National Living Wage and its later upratings on employment retention and hours worked.

Creating new poverty measures for the UK

  • 24 September 2020

The Social Metrics Commission has developed a new measure of poverty, which the UK Government has committed to build on to develop experimental statistics.

Why fathers? A reflection on my academic and data journey

  • 15 September 2020

Helen Norman shares her data and research journey in investigating the role of fathers in family work.

Developing a new way of measuring poverty

  • 11 February 2020

Emily Harris and Matthew Oakley from the Social Metrics Commission’s Secretariat introduce the release of the code underlying the Commission’s new poverty measure.

Supplementing official statistics on risks and injuries to pedestrians and cyclists

  • 7 November 2019

What does the National Travel Survey tell us about road injuries? Rachel Aldred explores how the National Travel Survey can add to the official statistics on risks and injuries to pedestrians and cyclists.

Merit or ‘fit’? The class ceiling: social mobility and why it pays to be privileged – through the lens of the UK Labour Force Survey

  • 26 June 2019

Daniel Laurison, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College and Sam Friedman, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, LSE assert that class analysis needs an approach which registers class destinations more effectively.

Much ado about next to nothing: tracking progress on reducing exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke

  • 18 March 2019

Sean Semple and Linsay Gray have been analysing data on second-hand smoke and discovering that a zero result may not mean what you’d expect!

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