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Using metadata to make it easier to catalogue, validate, reuse and share your data.
Consistent and standards-based comma-separated values (CSV) files help make data more effective and easier to share across government.
Data and Records guidance for standardised waste packages containing Low Heat Generating Waste (LHGW)
A guide to documenting how you’ve collected your packaging data, known as your ‘methodology’. Online marketplaces affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging must submit a methodology. This is also recommended for all producers as part of their ways...
Add metadata to data you are publishing so search engines can find the data you’ve published and display structured results for users.
Spreadsheets are a common way to share data. Use this information to help you avoid common errors, improve interoperability and create more accessible spreadsheets.
A guide to non-standard files outside the standard Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office corporate file plans.
A guide to collecting data about your packaging. This is for UK organisations affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How to make sure your data is accessible, reusable and maintained independently of any technology or service.
Explains the standard and practices you should use when publishing your data.
All essential shared data assets (ESDA) must be assessed for data quality issues, made findable and be available through APIs.
Information about Price Paid Data and how you can get it.
How we comply with data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), when using personal information in our statistics.
How to prepare and analyse the data you collected for your evaluation.
How to access the historical censuses from 1841 to 1921.
Records and paperwork you must keep if you're self-employed as a sole trader or partner in a business: income, costs, profit, how long to keep records.
If you need to submit packaging data under extended producer responsibility for packaging, this spreadsheet can help you generate a valid packaging data file
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