Minutes and papers

  1. National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory Committee minutes: April 2020 (1)

    Twentieth meeting of the National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory Committee Meeting agenda: Minute and matters arising from the previous meeting Investigating vulnerabilities linked to serious youth violence using linked DfE and MoJ data Parental separation and educational inequality: Any evidence for growing disadvantage or ‘diverging destinies’ across three recent cohorts? ONS Webscraping Policy ONS Sustainable […]

  5. EAP142 – Measuring Respondent Error in the 2021 Census

    Summary This paper describes three approaches to measuring respondent error in the 2021 Census and invites comments from Panel members to guide the final recommendation on the preferred approach. Background A Census Quality Survey (CQS) was used in the 2011 Census to estimate respondent error for each individual census question. Following the Census itself, a […]

  6. EAP141 – Design of Address Frame, Collection and Coverage Assessment and Adjustment of Communal Establishments in 2021 Census

    Orlaith Fraser, Cal Ghee. 2021 Census Statistical Design, August 2021 Purpose of this paper We took an introduction to the design for Communal Establishments (CEs) to the external methodological assurance panel (MARP) in October 2019. The panel wanted an update specifically on imputation and use of admin data. Extract from the minutes: 2.8 – The […]

  7. EAP140 – Forecasting return rates in the 2021 Census

    Written by Brendan Davis and Orlaith Fraser Background During the 2019 Rehearsal the Response Chasing Algorithm (RCA) compared live and expected return rates to identify areas with shortfalls in response; to assign each a RAG status; to rank the shortfalls; and to propose interventions to mitigate them. The expected return rates were an output from […]

  8. EAP139: Methodology for assigning Red-Amber-Green status for 2021 Census returns

    Author: Alexandra Christenson and Torunn Jegleim  Purpose  It’s common practice in performance management contexts to assess the quality of an outcome using a “traffic-light” system; Red, Amber or Green – also known as a RAG status. This paper provides the outline of the proposed RAG status methodology for live returns during the 2021 Census collection. […]

  9. EAP138 – Variability Target for Response Rates in Collection

     Written by Kamila Martyna Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the proposed variability target for the 2021 Census. Background One of the Census quality targets for 2021 is reduced variability in response rates across Local Authorities (LA) and within Hard-to-Count (HtC) groups. The HtC index is constructed using an area level (Lower […]