Integrating Data: Boosting the capabilities of researchers to inform policymaking.
Miles explores how data linking can help tackle cross-cutting issues in an increasingly uncertain world, and how the ONS' new Integrated Data Service will provide a step-change transformation in how r...
31 Jan 202330min
ONS: The Year in Review
National Statistician, Sir Ian Diamond, joins Miles in a slightly festive episode of Statistically Speaking, to look back on some of the highlights and challenges for the ONS in 2022 while gazing posi...
20 Dec 202230min
Health: The role of public data in taking the pulse of a nation.
Miles is joined by colleagues from the Health and Life Events team to explore how data is good for our health. Within the diagnosis: the Health Index, dubbed "the GDP of health"; the impacts of Covid-...
28 Nov 202229min
Crime: Understanding its impact on society through data.
In this episode of Statistically Speaking Miles is helped with his enquiries by Meghan Elkin and Billy Gazard from the Office for National Statistics, as he investigates how we use data to get valuabl...
31 Okt 202224min
Trust in Data: The importance of ethics and privacy in producing statistics for the public good
In this episode Miles is joined by Professor Luciano Floridi of Oxford University; Simon Whitworth of the UK Statistics Authority; and Pete Stokes from the ONS to talk about data ethics and public tru...
22 Aug 202231min
Labour & Wages: The tracking of employment and pay across the UK
David Freeman and Nicola White join Miles to discuss how the Office for National Statistics (ONS) tracks employment and pay across the UK. Transcript: Hello and welcome again to Statistically Speaki...
26 Juli 202236min
A Matter of Life & Death: The impact of declining fertility rates; the re-birth of a dataset buried for 50 years; and why you should call your baby Nigel.
In this episode Miles is joined by Dr James Tucker and Sarah Caul MBE to talk about how and why the Office for National Statistics count births and deaths, and what current fertility trends might mean...
20 Juni 202226min
Evolution of the Economy: The science of measuring rapid change in a complex, globalised and increasingly turbulent economic situation.
Our topic this time, and it's a big one, is the economy. The science of measuring rapid change in a complex, globalised and now increasingly turbulent economic situation. In this episode Miles is join...
23 Maj 202235min
