Guidance and research

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Review of the ethnicity harmonised standard: overview of our redesign research to date

Harmonisation standards and guidance

A summary of the research undertaken to inform the development of a more inclusive and flexible question format for the ethnicity harmonised standard.

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Writing about data

Guidance

This guidance outlines several important points to remember when writing about data. It provides a concise summary of existing guidance to help you communicate your analysis in a clear and engaging way.

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Guide to Government Statistical Service (GSS) techniques and tools

Guidance

The guidance provides examples of some of the statistical tools and techniques used by statisticians, statistical data scientists, and others involved in producing statistics in the UK Civil Service.

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Sex harmonisation guidance

Harmonisation standards and guidance

The Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation team are undertaking priority work to develop best practice harmonised standards for the topic of sex and gender identity data.

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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

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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