Area of work: Data collection

Standards for Ethnicity Data

The standards for ethnicity data have been developed by the Cabinet Office Equality Hub. They describe best practice when collecting, analysing and reporting ethnicity data. 

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Survey development toolkit: an overview of the research objectives and methods for each Agile phase of survey development

This toolkit can be used to support the development of survey products for social and business surveys.

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Development of the socio-economic background harmonised standard: research findings

This report presents the research that has been done during the development of the first harmonised standard for socio-economic background.

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Socio-economic background harmonised standard

This guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about socio-economic background to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.

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The three levels of Respondent Centred Design (RCD)

This guidance has been created to help you make decisions about the amount of research and design needed for survey questions and materials.

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Office for National Statistics (ONS) Survey Strategy Research and Development Principles (SSRDP)

These principles should be used alongside the 10 steps of the Respondent Centred Design Framework when developing a survey. This will help reduce respondent burden and improve data quality.

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Questionnaire design guidance

This guidance covers the main considerations in question and questionnaire design and shares specific best practice on question design.

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National identity harmonised standard

This guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about national identity to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.

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Respondent engagement for push-to-web social surveys

This report aims to provide advice and recommendations for those developing respondent communication materials for their own push-to-web surveys.

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User-centred design approach to surveys

This guide provides practical advice about how to create user-centred surveys.

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