Public Perceptions of ‘Public Good’ Use
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:29 am
If you’ve ever wondered what ‘public good’ means, you’re in excellent company. Public good can seem a vague and nebulous concept, potentially because the meaning can differ depending on the perspective you take.
Public good underpins the work of both the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK) and, to fulfil our respective visions and create a stronger spain rcs data understanding of public good, we believe it is particularly important to understand how the public perceive the ‘public good’. Data is collected from people when they interact with public services, therefore the public play a vital role in enabling research and helping develop knowledge about society. Additionally, statistics are a public asset, and the lifeblood of democracy, therefore understanding what members of the public think can be achieved through data for research and statistics is integral to achieving public good.
Following several reviews of recent literature (Cowan & Humpherson, 2020; Waind, 2020), it has been established that there is no consensus on what members of the general public conceptualise as ‘public good’ within the context of the use of data for research and statistics. This represents an important gap to fill, and last year the ESRC’s (Economic and Social Research Council’s) ADR UK programme and OSR collaborated to carry out research exploring this topic.
Public good underpins the work of both the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK) and, to fulfil our respective visions and create a stronger spain rcs data understanding of public good, we believe it is particularly important to understand how the public perceive the ‘public good’. Data is collected from people when they interact with public services, therefore the public play a vital role in enabling research and helping develop knowledge about society. Additionally, statistics are a public asset, and the lifeblood of democracy, therefore understanding what members of the public think can be achieved through data for research and statistics is integral to achieving public good.
Following several reviews of recent literature (Cowan & Humpherson, 2020; Waind, 2020), it has been established that there is no consensus on what members of the general public conceptualise as ‘public good’ within the context of the use of data for research and statistics. This represents an important gap to fill, and last year the ESRC’s (Economic and Social Research Council’s) ADR UK programme and OSR collaborated to carry out research exploring this topic.