GSS methodology publications

We regularly publish work on new methods and where we have made significant improvements to existing methods. We have a number of channels:

Office for National Statistics (ONS) working paper series

Government Statistical Service (GSS) methodology for official statistics (this also includes the discontinued survey methodology bulletin and GSS methodology series).

The table provides a comprehensive list of all publications authored or co-authored by the Office for National Statistics Methodology Division.

Please contact us at GSSHelp@statistics.gov.uk for copies of anything not available, broken links or missing items.

Publications

Title	Type	Year	Keywords	Source/Author
Measurement Error in Longitudinal Data	Book chapter	2021	measurement error, longitudinal data, survey methodology	Blackwell, L., Rogers, N., Cernat, A., Sakshaug, J. W.
A Practical Introduction to Index Numbers	Book	2015	index numbers	Ralph, J., O'Neill, R., Winton, J.
100 years of the census of production in the UK	GSS Paper	2009	census of production	Smith, P. A. and Penneck, S.
Using Statistical Modelling to estimate international migration	Working paper	2021	time series, migration, modelling	Rogers, N., Blackwell, L., Elliott, D., Large, A., Ridden, S., Wu, M.
Assessing the Generalised Structure Preserving Estimator (GSPREE) for Local Authority Population Estimates by Ethnic Group in England	GSS Paper	2016	small area estimation, ethnicity	Correa-Onel, S., Whitworth, A. and Piller, K.
Estimating distributions of household income for middle layer super output areas in 2011 using small area estimation methods	GSS Paper	2010	small area estimation, income	North, R. and Whitworth, A.
How face-to-face interviewer attitudes and beliefs moderate the effect of monetary incentive on UK Labour Force Survey response rates	Article	2020	incentives, interviewer attitudes, labour force survey	Lowthian, P. and Lloyd, L.
Changes to the Wealth and Assets Survey weighting system because of a shift in the reporting period	Article	2020	wealth and assets, weighting	Lowthian, P. and Zobay, O.
Inflation: History and Measurement	Book	2017	inflation, economic statistics, price index	O'Neill, R., Ralph, J. and Smith, P. A.
Developments in Business Survey Methodology in the Office for National Statistics, 1994-2000	Journal paper	2003	economic statistics, surveys, business register, estimation	Smith, P. A., Pont, M. and Jones, T.
Redesign in a statistical office – sociodemographic statistics in the Office for National Statistics	Journal paper	2014	administrative data, coverage survey	Smith, P. A.
Should we sample a time series more frequently: decision support via multirate spectrum estimation	Journal paper	2016	time series, bayesian, spectrum estimation, aliasing	Nason, G., Powell, B., Elliott, D. and Smith, P. A.
Changing Industrial Classification to SIC (2007) at the UK Office for National Statistics	Journal paper	2017	SIC, classification, quality, conversion, overlap	Smith, P. A. and James, G. G.
Quality procedures for survey transitions - experiments, time series and discontinuities	Journal paper	2008	time series, discontinuities, surveys	Brakel, J. van den, Smith, P. A. and Compton S.
ONS web scraping policy	Policy	2018	web scraping	Greenaway, M.
Collecting and using social media for statistics and statistical research policy	Policy	2018	social media, web scraping	Wardman, L.
Tracking and modelling prices using web-scraped price microdata: Towards automated daily consumer price index forecasting	Journal paper	2017	Dynamic inﬂation model, High frequency inﬂation prediction, Inﬂation estimation, state space model	Powell, B., Nason, G., Elliott, D., Mayhew, M., Davies, J., Winton, J.
An introduction to applications of wavelet benchmarking with seasonal adjustment	Journal paper	2016	benchmarking, seasonal adjustment, structural time series, thresholding, wavelets	Sayal, H., Aston, J., Elliott, D., Ombao, H.
2011 UK Census Coverage assessment and adjustment strategy	Article	2007	census coverage	Abbott, O.
Counting and estimating hard-to-survey populations in the 2011 Census	Book chapter	2014	census	Abbott, O., Compton, G.
Estimating and correcting for over-count in the 2011 Census	SMB Paper	2011	census over-count	Large, A., Brown, J., Abbott O., Taylor A.
Linkage of Census and Administrative Data to Quality Assure the 2011 Census for England and Wales	Journal paper	2015	record linkage, administrative data coverage, linkage methods	Blackwell, L., Charlesworth, A., Rogers, N.
Longitudinal Data for Official Immigration Statistics	United Nations Economic Commission for Europe taskforce paper	2019	total survey error, longitudinal, international migration	Rogers, N. and Blackwell, L.
Ethnic-minority groups in England and Wales—factors associated with the size and timing of elevated COVID-19 mortality: a retrospective cohort study linking census and death records	Journal paper	2020	COVID-19, coronavirus, ethnicity, BAME, social determinants of health, census, mortality	Ayoubkhani, D., Nafilyan, V., White, C., Goldblatt, P., Gaughan, C.H., Blackwell, L., Rogers, N., Banerjee, A., Khunti, K., Glickman, M., Humberstone, B., Diamond, I.D.
Religious affiliation and COVID-19-related mortality: a retrospective cohort study of prelockdown and postlockdown risks in England and Wales	Journal paper	2021	COVID-19, coronavirus, religion, census, mortality	Gaughan, C. H., Ayoubkhani, D., Nafilyan, V., Goldblatt, P., White, C., Tingay, K., Bannister, N.
Ethnicity, household composition and COVID-19 mortality: a national linked data study	Journal paper	2021	Clinical, ethnic studies, housing and health, infectious diseases, public health	Nafilyan, V., Islam, N., Ayoubkhani, D., Gilles, C., Katikireddi, S. V., Mathur, R., Summerfield, A., Tingay, K., Asaria, M., John, A., Goldblatt, P., Banerjee, A., Glickman, M., Khunti, K.
An external validation of the QCovid risk prediction algorithm for risk of mortality from COVID-19 in adults: national validation cohort study in England	Preprint	2021	Qcovid risk, mortality, COVID-19	Nafilyan, V., Humberstone, B., Mehta, N., Diamond, I. D., Coupland, C., Lorenzi, L., Pawelek, P., Schofield, R., Morgan, J., Brown, P., Lyons, R., Sheikh, A., Hippisley-Cox, J.
Post-covid syndrome in individuals admitted to hospital with covid-19: retrospective cohort study	Journal paper	2021	COVID-19, long covid, organ dysfunction	Ayoubkhani, D., Khunti, K., Nafilyan, V., Maddox, T., Humberstone, B., Diamond, I. D., Banerjee, A.
Updating ethnic contrasts in deaths involving the coronavirus (COVID-19), England and Wales: deaths occurring 2 March to 28 July 2020	Article	2020	COVID-19, mortality, ethnicity	White, C. and Ayoubkhani, D.
Statistical properties of coronavirus (COVID-19) mortality data: error in longitudinally linked survey and administrative sources	Article	2021	COVID-19, longitudinal, mortality, error	Rogers, N., Blackwell, L., Cummins, S., Fordham, E., Large, A., Ridden, S., Scott-Kortlever, E. and Hanson G.
Sampling procedures for assessing accuracy of record linkage	Conference paper	2016	linkage, sampling, accuracy	Smith, P., Gammon, S., Cummins, S., Chatzoglou, C. and Heasman, D.
Labour Force Survey weighting methodology	Article	2021	labour force survey, weighting	Merad, S.
Valuing official statistics with conjoint analysis	Working paper	2021	conjoint, official statistics	Williams, S.
Using longitudinally linked data to measure the integration of refugees in the UK	Conference poster	2021	linkage, longitudinal, refugees	Hanson, G., Scott-Kortlever, E.,Ismail, Z., Rogers, N., Calem, M. and Shaw, E.
Coronavirus vaccine hesitancy in younger adults: A qualitative study	Article	2021	COVID-19, vaccine, qualitative	Jones, B., Wardman L. and Tinkler L.
Deaths involving COVID-19 by self-reported disability status during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in England: a retrospective, population-based cohort study	Journal Paper	2021	COVID-19, mortality	Bosworth M.L., Ayoubkhani, D., Nafilyan V., Foubert, J., Glickman, M., Davey, C. and Kuper, H.
Outlier and Anomaly Detection Methods with Applications to the 2021 Census	Working paper	2018	census, outliers, data science	Sabeur, Z., Correndo, G., Veres, G.V., Smith, P.A. and Dawber, J.