New Year's resolutions for Cabinet Office analysts - 5 Cs for 2016
...are my five C’s - I think if we focus our individual and collective attention on them, we can improve the impact and usefulness of analysis in the Cabinet Office....
Analysis and Insight
Integrating wellbeing into public policy
In December we had the pleasure of hosting a team from the Hertford Business and Economics Society, and their Principal at Hertford College, Oxford, Will Hutton. The team of students had just completed a study on the implications of wellbeing …
Children’s Wellbeing Workshop
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Nina James and Ewen McKinnon, Posted on:
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Analysis and Insight, Office for Civil Society, Wellbeing
How are children in the UK doing? There is a growing body of high quality evidence on this subject and some deep expertise within UK universities, think tanks and charities. Recent research has indicated that UK children are lagging behind …
Bristol Festival of Economics 2015
The Bristol Festival of Economics took place as part of the Festival of Ideas on 12th-14th November. The Bristol Festival of Ideas has been running since 2005 and the Festival of Economics started in 2011. Two of us from Analysis …
New tools and data sets for impactful policy analysis
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Radana Crhova, Ewen McKinnon and Hannah Rignall, Posted on:
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Analysis, Analysis and Insight, Office for Civil Society, Wellbeing
...reveal more information), or dashboards visualising several related charts on a single page. The drag-and-drop interface is very intuitive to use so Tableau is very quick to get started with....
Promoting Employee Engagement and Wellbeing at Civil Service Live
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Julia Dudley, David Widlake and Ian Rowe, Posted on:
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Analysis and Insight, Employee Engagement
...and lower infection rates and mortality. How? The answer is discretionary effort. It means the level of effort people could give if they wanted to, above and beyond the call...
Innovation in survey methodology - an online approach to survey data collection
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Katie Green, Posted on:
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Analysis and Insight, Community Life, Office for Civil Society
...places they live in. Currently, a face-to-face survey methodology is used. Whilst this approach is effective in providing robust and nationally representative data, face-to-face interviews are a resource intensive undertaking,...
Code Club at Cabinet Office
...Service - John Manzoni - is to improve the digital skills of Civil Servants. The analytical community here in Cabinet Office were keen to learn if coding techniques could be...
A 2015 summer internship in the Analysis and Insight Team
For the last ten weeks I have worked as an Economist within the central analytical hub of the Cabinet Office as part of the Government Economic Service (GES) summer internship programme. As a Government and Economics student at LSE, the …
Government reviews the potential benefits offered by emerging technologies
The Government's Horizon Scanning Team is gearing up to produce a third review of technologies with the potential to boost UK productivity and improve public services. The previous reviews in 2009 and 2012 threw up the likes of 3D printing, smart …
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