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The NHS at 70 – and what people think of it
Chris Coates explores how data in the UK Data Service collection is being used to look at how the British feel about the NHS on its big birthday.
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Is the normalisation of ‘plus-size’ bodies in the UK undermining the battle against obesity?
A new study used descriptive and logistic regression analyses based on a pooled nationally representative cross-sectional survey, the Health Survey for England, for the years 1997, 1998, 2002, 2014...
In the News (2nd July)
A round-up from the news and across the web of the impact of data in the UK Data Service collection… – Scottish government woes? – Changing West Midlands – Flying anywhere?...
What is the size of Australia’s non-heterosexual population?
In the first in an occasional series looking at the use and impact of socio-economic data from other countries which is similar to that in the UK Data Service collection, Tom Wilson and Fiona Shall...
Has the National Living Wage really benefited low-paid employees?
Agnes Norris Keiller from the Institute for Fiscal Studies examines how the pay and living standards of low-wage employees have changed since the National Living Wage was introduced. She finds that...