Data Wish List
🩺 Health, Clinical Research & Biomedicine
NHS Data
NHS data is widely recognised as a vital resource, but researchers and innovators face major barriers to accessing and linking it. Unlocking routinely collected NHS data across care settings would give better insights into health outcomes, drive advances in research, innovation, and service improvement.
Social Determinants of Health
Better linkage between health and socioeconomic data could transform research into the causes of health disparities and inform policy across welfare, housing, and healthcare systems.
Other Health Data
Beyond strictly institutional NHS settings.
🎓 Education, Learning & Human Potential
Learning Trajectories & Educational Pathways
Better data across the student lifecycle would allow for deeper insights into learning trajectories, curriculum effectiveness, and educational inequality.
Social & Family Drivers of Educational Outcomes
Linking education records with family circumstances, benefits, health, and caring responsibilities would provide critical insight into the structural factors shaping educational attainment and inequalities.
🏘️ Social Determinants, Inequality & Households
Welfare & Socioeconomic Indicators
Improved socioeconomic data could significantly enhance understanding of welfare needs and inform better policy design.
Crime
Granular, linkable datasets spanning policing, sentencing, and wider justice system interactions are crucial for informing justice policy, understanding recidivism, and exploring intersections with social, educational, and health outcomes.
Personal & Household Finances
Improved financial models and services depend on better data.
🏛️ Public Sector & Government Operations
Public Administration & State Infrastructure
Improved access to core public admin datasets could radically improve evaluation of public sector performance, delivery, and accountability.
Public Service Interactions & Digital Delivery
Data capturing how people engage with public services could drive improvements in service design, delivery, and public trust in automated systems.
📊 Economy, Labour & Business Data
Business Structures, Ownership & Firm Dynamics
Data on corporate structures, beneficial ownership, and firm-level behaviour is essential for understanding economic activity, tax avoidance, and productivity.
Labour Markets & Income Distribution
Granular, representative labour market data — including income, employment status, workplace–worker linkages, and household context — is crucial for evaluating wage trends, inequality, and the impact of fiscal policy.
Taxpayer-Level Economic Data
Rich, granular data on the full taxpaying population is essential for labour market analysis, wage progression studies, and evaluation of policies at local and national levels.
🌍 Environment, Place & Mobility
Traffic & Mobility Data
Respondents highlighted major gaps in transport and mobility data needed to analyse accessibility, costs, and infrastructure planning.
Environmental & Emissions Monitoring
Respondents called for more granular, disaggregated environmental data to evaluate the effects of climate policy, enable realistic modelling for decarbonisation, and improve public health analysis.
Energy
Respondents called for better energy data to support NetZero analysis and infrastructure planning.