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Gender identity data harmonisation guidance

Harmonisation standards and guidance

The Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation team are currently working to develop a new gender identity data harmonised standard. This page provides interim guidance for collecting data on gender identity.

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Review of the ethnicity harmonised standard: additional work to explore potential new response options

Guidance, Harmonisation standards and guidance

This update provides an overview of the GSS Harmonisation team’s review of the ethnicity harmonised standard. It sets out additional work they are undertaking to further understand user need and explore potential new tick-box response options.

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Introducing the Administrative Data Quality Question Bank

Guidance

This question bank aims to help analysts understand administrative data quality. The questions can be used as an assessment tool when producing statistics and conducting research using administrative data.

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Inclusivity and accessibility in survey development

Guidance

This guidance outlines the inclusivity and accessibility considerations that need to be made during survey development. It aims to increase the understanding of inclusivity and accessibility in survey design, and the risks of not incorporating them.

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Summary of Strength in Numbers: a strategic vision for the Government Statistical Service (GSS)

Strategy

A summary of the GSS Strategic Delivery plan, setting out how the statistical system will work together on areas of high impact.

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Analytical learning points for ethnicity data in health administrative data sources

Guidance

This paper summarises insights from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) programme of work that was funded by the Wellcome Trust to investigate the consistency and quality of ethnicity data within NHS health administrative data sources.

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Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation Team workplan 2024

Strategy

This workplan reflects the work of the GSS Harmonisation Team, based in the Office for National Statistics, for 2024 onwards.

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Identifying stakeholders

Guidance

This guidance includes information about how to identify stakeholders who may be interested in engaging with your statistical outputs.

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An Introductory Guide to Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)

Guidance

This guide provides a general introduction to Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). You can use it in any context, but there is some emphasis on decision making in the public sector.

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Challenging assumption-based design: red and green flag statements

Guidance

Guidance to accompany a set of posters promoting the importance of evidence-based design.

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