Minutes and papers

  1. Methodology for decision making on the 2021 Census sex question concept and associated guidance

    10 February 2021 written by Helena Rosiecka, Head of 2021 Census Question and Questionnaire Design Terminology In this paper, for brevity, the population where the gender they identify with is different to their sex registered at birth is referred to as “the trans population” who have variation in sex characteristics, sometimes referred to as ‘intersex’ […]

  2. National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory Committee minutes: July 2020

    Twenty-first meeting of the National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory Committee Meeting agenda: Minutes and matters arising from the previous meeting COVID-19 Infection Survey Update NSDEC Briefing on COVID-19 Surveillance Studies Data Science Campus Rapid Ethical Review process for COVID-19 projects Selecting 2021 Census hard refusal cases for non-compliance follow-up ESRC Early Life Cohort Pilot Study […]

  3. National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory Committee minutes: April 2020 (2)

    Meeting of the National Statistician’s Data Ethics Advisory Committee Meeting agenda: Chair’s Welcome Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and prevalence of immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in the UK general population as assessed through repeated cross-sectional household surveys with additional serial sampling and longitudinal follow-up [NSDEC(20)11]

  4. 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 […]