Debora Price

There should be a word for that feeling of utter relief when you manage to indeed verify that you are human
#modernlife

We couldn't agree more. @gerontologyuk.bsky.social on data preservation & infrastructure: "They are foundational to democracy, social understanding, and the pursuit of knowledge. They form the basis of sound decision-making across policy, economics, industry and society." @ukdataservice.bsky.social

📢New publication from our team: "The meaning of ‘quality’ of homecare for older people: a scoping review" bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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⏰New on the Data Impact blog⏰

Debora Price (@gerontologyuk.bsky.social) reflects on the importance of data preservation, recent international threats to data infrastructure, and why we must protect trusted data services as essential public institutions.

blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/why-data-pre...

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NHS is stopping the Health Survey for England.
ONS user input qu'airre on this open to 25 July.
If data from population health surveys are important for your work, it's vital to feed in. Defunding this data collection may be a huge error with so many population health challenges.

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UK Census 2031: A win for user engagement

We welcome today's recommendations that the UK gvmt commission 2031 censuses.

The census remains a cornerstone of how we understand our society—and it’s great to see UKSA recognising its user's needs on this.

Read more in a blog from our CEO 👉 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

A really interesting thread on the very tricky issues facing ONS and the national social and economic surveys today

Really interesting thread, thanks

That's my rabbit hole journey exhausted for the evening...

A mighty tome, interesting discussion of the emergence of relative measures (Pg 59 etc seq) from the 19
60s (crediting Townsend and others) but unclear exactly when govts adopted them and how the lines were drawn - suggests Townsend himself was wary of the arbitrary line
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I'm pretty sure I have a book somewhere called something thrilling like The Development of Poverty Indicators in the EU. I'll see if I can dig it out.

A brief history of the poverty line - Peter Adamson (First published in Report Card 10: Measuring Child Poverty, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy, May 2012)   The earliest known attempts to draw an official poverty line date from ninet...

I found this which suggests it came from Townsend's study of poverty: peteradamsonwriting.com/essays/short...

He published a seminal book on poverty I think in 1979

I have a feeling it came from research by Peter Townsend? I may have that wrong. I am pretty sure I knew the answer to this at a point in my life.

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Topic webinars from Understanding Society - all 14.00-15.00, for new and experienced data users:
Income, wealth and housing: 12 March
Employment: 19 March
Family, households, children: 26 March
Sign up on our website - www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/help/trainin...

From the ukpolitics community on Reddit: AMA (Ask Me Anything) Thread: Analysts from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Friday 7th February, 10:30am - 1:30pm Explore this post and more from the ukpolitics community

Our latest report found over 1 in 5 people in the UK are in poverty.

On Friday we are hosting an 'Ask Me Anything' session on Reddit - you can ask our analysts about the stats, the modelling, policy, and the picture of poverty across the UK.

🙋 Join our session: www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics...

I completely agree, but it has become politically unsayable. I think the transformation of work towards gig and precarious work makes these arguments and discussions all the more urgent.

It tells us that if you are a political party and these are the exact things you say to the public, you will have very substantive support.

Hard agree. I think people who pay a lot of tax don't really realise how limited tax data is in reflecting populations

Am excellent thread on some of the tensions as between our current #census and potential replacement by admin #data.

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And definitely this, re care

I don't think tax data is the answer? Really a lot of people are not captured in our tax datasets as they are not taxpayers

Call for abstracts open - Understanding Society Present your research at the 2025 Understanding Society Scientific Conference Present your work at the 2025 Understanding Society conference

Understanding Society Scientific Conference 1-3 July - you've got until 31 Jan to submit an abstract. If you're using household panel data, we'd love to hear about your work!
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/news/2024/11...

Looks like a really interesting seminar series, thanks.

Interested in care work and care policies? Then join us for our next seminar @DSPI_Oxford from Jan 23. We have many exciting speakers and will be talking about social care reform, post-growth caring economy, carewashing, disability, AI and more...sign up here 👇
www.spi.ox.ac.uk/upcoming-eve...

A pension is for life, not just for inheritance

Should #housing just be housing and #pensions just pensions? From Simon Grover (who I don't think is on BlueSky?) First principles.
quietroom.co.uk/insights/a-p...

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Homecare quality: exploring and bridging perspectives from key stakeholders Around 10 million unpaid carers in the UK provide support for friends and family. We know very little about who receives homecare and what support they need.

📢Please read our new report from our team on the meaning of 'quality' of homecare for older people: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx... - and find out more about our project including a recording of a recent webinar here: www.hapru.nihr.ac.uk/2024/08/23/q...

I didn't but she sounds a special person. I gave a feeling there was some research done about twenty years ago about the importance of pubs for older men (vague memory). So central.