Tag Archives: Office for National Statistics

Census Snippets

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Combined household and individual questionnaires for the 2011 population census have been dropping on doormats all week in preparation for the official enumeration date of Sunday, 27 March. They can be completed on paper or online. This will be the … Continue reading →

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National Well-Being

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Clive D. Field

At the request of the Coalition Government, the Office for National Statistics is working to develop new statistical measures of national well-being, covering quality of life and environmental and sustainability issues, as well as the traditional economic performance of the … Continue reading →

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Social Trends 41

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Clive D. Field

As previously noted (http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=365), Social Trends, the compilation by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) of social data from governmental and other sources, is now only published online, and in serialized form. The latest version of the chapter on lifestyles … Continue reading →

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Who Worked on Christmas Day? Not All the Clergy!

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Christmas Day may be both a religious festival and a secular public holiday in Britain, but many people have to, or choose to, work on the day, according to newly-released data from the Government’s Labour Force Survey, which interviews a … Continue reading →

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Names of Baby Boys in 2009

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The Muslim name Mohammed (meaning ‘one who is praiseworthy’) has become the most popular name for newborn boys in England and Wales, according to a reworking in today’s Daily Express and Daily Mail of 2009 data released yesterday by the … Continue reading →

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Integrated Household Survey – First Release of Data

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Clive D. Field

New estimates of the religious profile of Great Britain were published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 23 September, in the form of the first release of data from the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) for April 2009 to … Continue reading →

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A Non-Source of Religious Statistics

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Government actually collects quite a lot of data pertaining to religion in Britain, but you would not think so if your only evidence was the Annual Abstract of Statistics. The latest (and last) print edition (No. 146 for 2010) was … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Social Trends

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Clive D. Field

On 2 July the Office for National Statistics published the fortieth (2010) edition of Social Trends, the annual compilation of social data from governmental and other sources. Edited by Matthew Hughes, it can be bought as a print publication from … Continue reading →

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Jews and the 2011 Census

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The Jewish Chronicle of 5 March 2010 reports that, following a lengthy process of consultation with the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has agreed to make … Continue reading →

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Marriages in England and Wales

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The Office for National Statistics released the provisional marriage data for England and Wales for 2008 in a Statistical Bulletin published on 11 February 2010. The report, with accompanying Excel spreadsheets, will be found at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=14275 The principal religious information … Continue reading →

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