Task type: Collecting data

Sex harmonisation 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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Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation Team workplan 2024

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

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Review of ethnicity harmonised standard: findings from phase 2 of our research

This report summarises the main findings from the second phase of the work to review the current ethnicity harmonised standard.

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Survey development toolkit: an overview of the research objectives and methods for each Agile phase of survey development

This toolkit can be used to support the development of survey products for social and business surveys.

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Development of the socio-economic background harmonised standard: research findings

This report presents the research that has been done during the development of the first harmonised standard for socio-economic background.

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Socio-economic background harmonised standard

This guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about socio-economic background to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.

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The three levels of Respondent Centred Design (RCD)

This guidance has been created to help you make decisions about the amount of research and design needed for survey questions and materials.

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Office for National Statistics (ONS) Survey Strategy Research and Development Principles (SSRDP)

These principles should be used alongside the 10 steps of the Respondent Centred Design Framework when developing a survey. This will help reduce respondent burden and improve data quality.

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Review of mental health harmonisation

A review of mental health harmonisation.

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Review of disability data harmonised standards

A review of the disability harmonised standard that aims to ensure that disability standards meet user needs and explore any potential improvements.

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