Last month the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published an article discussing the current challenges being faced in the Labour Force Survey (LFS), and what steps they are taking to address this. Today, we are discussing how these issues impact labour market statistics for Wales, and the approach we are taking to continue providing a robust and timely picture of the Welsh labour market.
Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Cymraeg.
Continue readingToday we provide an update on ongoing work to improve the public availability of justice data for Wales, including the development of interactive dashboards to bring together available data for Wales in one place. This morning, the first of these dashboards – the Youth Justice Interactive Dashboard – was published.
Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Cymraeg.
Continue readingDarllenwch y dudalen hon yn Cymraeg
The latest edition of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) was published on 27 November 2019. The index ranks small areas in Wales on several types of deprivation, like income and health, and combines these into an overall measure of multiple deprivation.
Continue readingDarllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg
Last month we told you about the work we’ve been doing to improve access to data on energy efficiency of homes, including the publication of a new dashboard using information on energy performance certificates. If you missed this, you can go back and read the blog post. Today, we’re expanding our work on energy and fuel further by publishing an interactive dashboard of fuel poverty data for homes in Wales.
Continue readingDarllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg
Today we published an interactive dashboard presenting Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data for homes in Wales.
Continue readingDarllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg
December 2022 saw the first release of data about the Welsh language from Census 2021. This showed that the number of Welsh speakers had fallen to 538,300. This contrasted with some other sources which suggested figures had been rising.
Continue readingDarllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg
Today we published the first data from Census 2021 about the Welsh language.
On Census Day, 21 March 2021, an estimated 538,300 usual residents in Wales aged three years or older reported being able to speak Welsh. This is 17.8% of the population. This represents a decrease of around 23,700 people since Census 2011, or a decrease of 1.2 percentage points.
Continue readingDarllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg
The cost of living has been increasing across the UK since early 2021. The annual rate of inflation reached a 41-year high of 11.1% in October 2022, and the Bank of England raised interest rates to 3% in November, the highest level since the financial crisis of 2008. This affects the affordability of goods and services for households, and also impacts on businesses.
Continue readingDarllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg
The provision of health services is devolved across the four nations of the UK. As a result, the way we measure NHS activity and performance in each nation differs, in order to reflect the different policy priorities and circumstances of each nation. While there are similarities in the types of data collected, there are also important differences in coverage and definitions, meaning that the headline statistics are often not directly comparable. However, understandably, there is considerable interest in making these comparisons, so this blog post aims to offer advice on doing this.
Continue readingDarllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg
Today marks a significant milestone in the release of 2021 Census data. On 28 June, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the first results from the 2021 Census for Wales. These first results include rounded population estimates for local authorities in Wales, by sex and five-year age groups. The release also includes household estimates, and information about population density.
Continue reading
Digital and Data Blog 