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Today is my last day as Chief Statistician after just under ten years in the job (depending on how you define my starting date, in true admin-data style).
Category Archives: Chief Statistician
Chief Statistician’s update: Trade Survey for Wales
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In a previous blog, I wrote about our plans for a pilot Trade Survey for Wales. The pilot is now complete and the results are published today. Continue reading
Chief Statistician’s update: how does COVID-19 mortality in Wales compare with the rest of the UK, and how does it vary within Wales?
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On Friday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published two more articles on COVID-19 related mortality, expanding further on the critical range of analysis that they have been publishing to help us all better understand the nature and impact of this pandemic.
Chief Statistician’s update: measuring people in hospital, and some thoughts on data quality
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In this blog I wanted to talk a little about hospital statistics, which have been so crucial for the understanding of this pandemic.
Chief Statistician’s update: producing statistics during a national pandemic (follow-up to previous update)
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In my update of 23 March 2020, I outlined how we intended to review our forthcoming data collections, research activity and outputs in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. This has been undertaken to prioritise the response to the current situation – both in terms of our own resources within Welsh Government, but importantly also those of our data providers who are delivering key front-line services across the health, social care and public service sectors. This note provides an update on our plans.
Chief Statistician’s update: explaining COVID-19 mortality data sources for Wales
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In this blog I wanted to help provide an understanding of the different sources of data on coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths in Wales. There has been much public scrutiny of these figures over the last week, and we have today published, for the first time, the overall number of deaths in care homes in Wales occurring over the period of the outbreak.
Chief Statistician’s update: COVID-19 and the production of statistics and social research
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Statisticians and researchers within Welsh Government collect, analyse and publish official statistics and research reports to help government, business and the public make informed decisions.
Chief Statistician’s update: the 2018 based subnational population and household projections
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In October we announced that we were going to postpone the 2017-based subnational population and household projections. Our previous blog described the reasons why we made that decision, and a short note describing the challenges that we had with the work was also published.
Chief Statistician’s update: coming soon, new data for understanding areas of deprivation in Wales
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On 27 November, we’ll publish the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2019. This will be a fresh set of ranks of relative deprivation for small areas in Wales.
There’s been a gap of five years since WIMD 2014. That’s five years in which there have been many exciting data developments and advances in techniques that can help us with the complex calculations needed.
Chief Statistician’s update: postponing the 2017-based subnational population and household projections
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Our local authority population projections are one of the most widely used sets of information that we produce. The projections look at what has been happening to the population in recent years and project it forward into the future. They are used to help a range of organisations plan for the future (for example to plan houses, schools, nurseries and social services), and are used to help distribute money too. They do not take account of any future political or economic developments (for example Brexit).
