Research and analysis

Data for social mobility: improving the collection and availability of data across government

A review of data gaps and solutions to support effective policy-making

• From: Social Mobility Commission
• Published: 14 December 2022

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This report identifies the current barriers to finding and using socio-economic data, to outline an ambition of what an improved data environment could look like and how it might benefit future policy-making.This research acts as an aspirational paper to stimulate discussion and engagement across the government. We provide a high-level overview of some of the challenges in the sharing and use of socio-economic data and highlight some of the benefits if these problems were addressed.

Published 14 December 2022