Welcome to our dedicated consultation and participation area.
Here you can get take part in consultations, user engagements, and other participation activities. Sharing your views helps ensure our statistics reflect society, continue to be relevant, and meet users’ needs.
You can find our open and closed participation activities below, or search for a consultation or user engagement activity by keyword or interest. You can also read our responses to closed participation activities by visiting Our response to your feedback.
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Thank you for getting involved. Giving your views helps us produce better statistics for the public good.
If you have any questions or comments on the participation activities, please contact the address listed in the overview section of an activity, or external.affairs@ons.gov.uk.
Open participation activities
User requirements for official suicide statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is exploring ways to improve our annual suicide statistics to ensure clarity for all our users. Below, we summarise the context around the need for improvement and propose three options. When responding to the questionnaire, please provide your favoured option with a justification detailing how this would meet your needs. The details of these options are also in the user questionnaire. In England and Wales, all deaths by suicide are...
Our response to your feedback
Find out more about what we’ve heard and how that can help inform future plans.
Standard Industrial Classification consultation
Our consultation has reported that the UK should maintain comparability with the ISIC and NACE frameworks while allowing flexibility at the four-digit and five-digit levels to better reflect the UK economy. The design of the new UK framework, with users, is expected to be finalised by March 2026.
Consumer price inflation
Engagement with consumer price microdata users told us aggregate statistics could address some requirements. We’ll work to share examples for further feedback before March 2026.
User needs
We will publish detailed guidance and updated QMI reports, including information about the strengths and limitations of our projections and their underlying data, and guidance on their appropriate use.
Closed participation activities
Household projections: user engagement 2025
Following the release of 2022-based national population projections in January 2025, we are planning to develop 2022-based subnational population projections and 2022-based household projections (for England). The release of household projections is provisionally scheduled for August or September 2025. To help us further understand user need and intended use of household projections, we are inviting household projections users to complete a short questionnaire. ...
Long-term international migration bulletins: user feedback
Long-term international migration statistics (LTIM) produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) serve a wide range of users across government and beyond. The ONS would like your views on the opening section of the LTIM bulletin. Previously the bulletin opened with a "Main points" section but in the most recent publication we switched to using a longer "Overview" section. We want to know which approach is best for our users. This questionnaire should...
Help shape our published content for population estimates
At the Office for National Statistics (ONS) we are committed to providing high quality statistics and analysis for the public good. As part of our ambition for admin-based population estimates (ABPEs) to become the official estimates of the population for England and Wales we are reviewing the content we publish for population estimates. Currently for official population estimates we publish: Statistical bulletin Dataset Population analysis tool Quality...
Past participation activities
Participation activities held before November 2016 can be found on the National Archives.