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We are working on a new and improved platform for StatsWales to keep up with technological updates and user needs. As a consequence, and as explained in our first blog, our OData service has not been available since the end of August. We provided an update last month covering our plans for the temporary arrangements until the new StatsWales service is in place in 2025.

This post provides a further update on the availability of data files to temporarily replace OData.

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What are Lower Super Output Areas (LSOAs)?

LSOAs are geographical areas of similar population size used for reporting small area statistics. There are 1,917 LSOAs in Wales. Each LSOA contains between 400 and 1,200 households with a resident population between 1,000 and 3,000 people.

Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Cymraeg.

In September 2023, we published a Chief Statistician’s blog providing advice about the challenges being faced in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) run by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the impact of such challenges on labour market statistics for Wales and what ONS plans were to address the challenges.

Today we have published our final results from the School Census which was undertaken in January 2023. These final results include revised data on pupils eligible for free school meals. We explain in this blog why it has been necessary to undertake additional validation of this data and to revise the information previously published.

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Last year we investigated the methodologies of the NHS waiting list statistics produced by the four nations of the UK, and reported initial conclusions on the comparability of the headline performance measures.

Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Cymraeg.

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.

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Today 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.

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