Once the infrastructure and apparatus for any of these major (and beloved) surveys is gone, it will be difficult ever to resurrect. Maybe part of a better solution here is to have a real think about whether many of these surveys really need to be annual. Thinking a bit radically, could even the FRS become biennual? Others every three years or even every four or five years? Although it is clearly a gold standard, I would think that a lot of work on social implications and inequalities doesn't really depend on having annual data.
It does depend on having data though, and so total loss and destruction seems a really bad thing, apart from what it says about the future of evidence based policy.
Just a thought,
Debbie
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From: email list for Radical Statistics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Brewer
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Subject: Re: FW: [ESDS-ANNOUNCE] Threat to the General Lifestyle/Household Survey
Even if you don't care about the GLF/GHS, it is worth responding to the
consultation at:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/about/consultations/work-programme-consultation/index.html
The ONS has to stop doing **something**, so a consulation on what would
be the least painful thing to stop doing is a very sensible idea.
Mike
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