Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg
It doesn’t seem that long ago we were publishing our first ever Open Data Plan. However as we’re nearly at the end of 2017 I thought it was about time that we reviewed what’s been happening since we published it, what progress we’ve made against our commitments and where we’re hoping to go next. Continue reading
Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Cymraeg
The Sport Wales’ School Sport Survey will be back in 2018 and preparations are well underway for the April launch date.
The Team heading up the project which last round saw 116,000 youngsters share their views on physical activity in Wales, have been busy consulting with partners on potential changes and improvements.
Senior Insight Officer, Lauren Carter-Davies, talked us through the Survey and planned improvements…
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We have today published the final 2017 Key Stage 4 results for secondary school pupils in Wales. At this time of year there is much interest in putting the national performance into context, whether that is by comparing Wales to another country or looking at trends over time. There have been a number of changes in recent years to the way performance measures are calculated and in this blog I will describe the impact that these changes have had on our ability to compare. Continue reading
Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg
On September 25th I published the first ever annual Well-being of Wales report. The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 required us to report annually on our progress towards the national well-being goals, with reference to the national indicators.
It gave an insight into the state of the nation’s well-being and recent trends. Key messages can be found in this Slideshare and the full report.
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I’m pleased to introduce a guest blog by Penny Babb from the Office for Statistics Regulation. The UK Statistics Authority is currently consulting on a revised version of the Code of Practice for statistics. The Code of Practice is the framework for the official statistics produced here in Wales as well as the rest of the UK.
As part of this revision the Authority are proposing that the Code provides principles that can apply to any numerical information so it is relevant to the wider data agenda. I’d very much encourage those with interest in data and statistics in Wales to respond.
Glyn Jones, Chief Statistician
Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Cymraeg
Five years ago, Rural Payments Wales were given a challenge – To move from a completely bilingual paper-based system for agricultural subsidy payments to a wholly bilingual online system by 2016. Continue reading
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The Welsh Government aims to see the number of people able to enjoy speaking and using Welsh grow to one million by the year 2050. Enabling people to use technology in Welsh will play a key part in reaching this target. Continue reading
