by Georgina Sturge | Oct 1, 2026 | Talk Data to Me
A warm welcome to Newport. Source: ONS.The Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK’s main producer and quality-controller of official data, turned 30 this year and with that milestone came some soul-searching. A year earlier, the agency had been at probably...
by Georgina Sturge | May 18, 2026 | Talk Data to Me
Updated population projections from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released last week anticipate that the UK population could start to shrink from 2055 onwards. This was quite a stark change from the most recent projection before that, which showed the...
by Georgina Sturge | Mar 19, 2026 | Talk Data to Me
Not for want of trying, the British state has done a fairly poor job of collecting data about transgender people. Before the 2021/22 census first asked a question on gender identity in England and Wales and transgender identification in Scotland, only one estimate of...
by Georgina Sturge | Feb 10, 2026 | Talk Data to Me
Last year, The Bible Society published a report on what they deemed a quiet revival in church-going. According to their analysis, which drew on data collected by the respected polling company YouGov in 2018 and 2024, the proportion of people attending church at least...
by Georgina Sturge | Feb 2, 2026 | Talk Data to Me
I got a good response to the piece I wrote last month on the Dutch digital ID database being taken over by a US tech firm and why European countries are trying to avoid these kind of data platform dependencies. If you haven’t read that piece yet, I suggest you...