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Debora Price

@gerontologyuk.bsky.social

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Gerontologist: ageing and the lifecourse, wellbeing in later life, social policy for an ageing society. Especially pensions, social care, financing later life. Also ❤️ @UKDataService. University of Manchester @OfficialUoM. .. more

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Oct 5

Hi, just joined this platform. Hoping to find communities on #pensions, #longevity, #money, #data, #ageing, #socialpolicy, #financialservices, #families, #politics, #highereducation, etc.

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · 14d

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

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UK Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social · Jul 31

⏰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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NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing (NIHR HAPRU) @nihrhapru.bsky.social · Jul 31

📢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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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jul 17

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 Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚑 New on the Data Impact blog 🚑

Oyinlola Oyebode presents a personal view on the importance of the Health Survey for England and encourages participation in the ONS / DHSC questionnaire on the future of population health surveys.

blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/future-popul...

Female doctor holding up a medical device

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UK Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · Jun 17

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...

UK Census 2031: A win for user engagement

rss.org.uk

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jun 14

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

LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jun 14

I worked in government statistics for some years, including a spell in ONS, and there are a few things to say here.

Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jun 14

Really interesting thread, thanks

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jun 14

I worked in government statistics for some years, including a spell in ONS, and there are a few things to say here.

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Apr 24

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
iea.org.uk/wp-content/u...

iea.org.uk

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Apr 24

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.

Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

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...

peteradamsonwriting.com

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Apr 24

He published a seminal book on poverty I think in 1979

Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Apr 24

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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Understanding Society @usociety.bsky.social · Feb 20

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...

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · Feb 5

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...

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

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jan 29

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.

Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jan 27

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.

Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jan 22

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

Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jan 22

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

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Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social · Jan 22

Great session today as part of #UKStatisticsAssembly2025 on the future of the census, at which I was very pleased to be asked to speak.

(cc @drdemography.com who asked for more info)

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Promo leaflet encouraging people to respond to the 2011 Census, with the strapline "Help tomorrow take shape"

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jan 22

And definitely this, re care

Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jan 22

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

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Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social · Jan 22

Great session today as part of #UKStatisticsAssembly2025 on the future of the census, at which I was very pleased to be asked to speak.

(cc @drdemography.com who asked for more info)

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Understanding Society @usociety.bsky.social · Jan 21

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...

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

www.understandingsociety.ac.uk

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jan 15

Looks like a really interesting seminar series, thanks.

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Rossella Ciccia @rossellaciccia.bsky.social · Jan 15

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...

Upcoming events

www.spi.ox.ac.uk

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Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jan 11

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...

A pension is for life, not just for inheritance

quietroom.co.uk

Debora Price @gerontologyuk.bsky.social · Jan 7

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.