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These questions have been developed to collect data about the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in a harmonised way.
Learn more on COVID-19 harmonised guidanceThis guide sets out how to collect and report statistics about personal wellbeing to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.
Learn more on Personal wellbeing harmonised standardThis guide sets out how to collect and report statistics about loneliness to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.
Learn more on Loneliness harmonised standardThis guidance advises on how to quality assure data sources.
Learn more on Tips for urgent quality assurance of dataThis guidance aims to help researchers adapt some of their research methods to remote working.
Learn more on Remote testing survey questionsThis guidance has been drawn up to support producers of official statistics who need to decide when to pause or continue data collections during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Learn more on Data collection considerations during the COVID-19 pandemicTop tips on how to maintain quality when designing surveys at pace.
Learn more on Tips for maintaining quality when designing surveys at paceThe Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) have published guidance documents regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) and the regulation of statistics.
Learn more on COVID-19 and the regulation of statisticsThis page is currently under review and awaiting updates. This guidance sits alongside “Tips for urgent quality assurance of data”. This guidance focuses on the analysis, that guidance looks at the data used in the analysis.
Learn more on Tips for urgent quality assurance of ad-hoc statistical analysisThis guidance provides advice for maintaining privacy and data confidentiality in government statistics.
Learn more on Anonymisation and data confidentiality