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Developing sex and gender identity standards: respondent testing findings from our sex question development

Harmonisation standards and guidance

This report presents the details of research and respondent testing from the work to develop a harmonised standard for the collection of data on sex.

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Developing sex and gender identity harmonised standards: Government Statistical Services (GSS) user needs for a harmonised standard

This report presents the latest findings from our work to review user needs for harmonised standards on sex and gender.

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Sex harmonised standard

Harmonisation standards and guidance

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

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Statistical Disclosure Control for tables produced from administrative data

Guidance

This guidance outlines the main steps to be taken in considering disclosure control, while allowing different solutions to be developed for different datasets, taking into account detailed risk assessment and the latest disclosure control methods.

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Statistical Disclosure Control for tables produced from surveys

Guidance

This guidance outlines the main steps to be taken when protecting outputs from surveys in considering disclosure control.

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Statistical Disclosure Control for microdata produced from social survey data

Guidance

This guidance covers how to assess microdata risk and methods of mitigating this risk. It considers suitable methods of disclosure control required to ensure the confidentiality of released microdata. It also highlights specific issues, such as those relating to longitudinal data and large households.

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An introduction to Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC)

Guidance

This guidance describes the statistical disclosure control (SDC) approach that data providers should follow when producing standard outputs and ad-hoc requests.

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Regulatory Language Processor: insights and outcomes from tagging metadata using Large Language Models

Research paper

This research paper sets out the process, insights and outcomes from the Department for Business and Trade's usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) to tag metadata for regulatory content.

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Empty homes statistics from across the UK: 2026

Report

This article brings together statistics on empty homes and housing stock recorded as vacant to help data users understand what comparisons can be made across England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Developing sex and gender identity harmonised standards: findings from phase 1 of our research

Harmonisation standards and guidance

This report presents the first phase of work by the Government Statistical Service (GSS) to review the current and gender identity harmonised standards.

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