Leaving no-one behind: How can we be more inclusive in our data – Executive Summary

Published:
28 September 2021
Last updated:
25 October 2021

Our recommendations 

Based on these findings, we have developed a set of 8 principles, with specific recommendations underneath each, to improve the UK inclusive data infrastructure. They are:

  1. Create an environment of trust and trustworthiness
  2. Take a collaborative whole system approach to improve the UK data infrastructure
  3. Ensure that groups are robustly captured
  4. Ensure that sufficient data are available for robust and reliable disaggregation and intersectional analysis
  5. Ensure that concepts are appropriate and clear
  6. Broaden the range of methods used and create new approaches to understand everyone’s experiences
  7. Review harmonised standards regularly adapting to evolving social norms and needs
  8. Ensure that UK data and evidence are equally accessible to all

If fully implemented, these will help to bring about the needed step-change in the inclusivity of UK data and evidence.

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