News

May
2016

Model Puts Remain to Win at 86% in EU Referendum

The latest research by the Select team suggests that if the EU referendum were to be held today, the UK would be six times more likely to remain in the EU than to leave. Looking forward to the referendum on June 23rd, this reduces to a 68% probability of a win for the Remain camp.

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May
2016

ExIStA Spring 2016 Event

The latest ExIStA event comprised a series of member presentations on a range of different themes - from open data to European windstorms, and tennis match-fixing to liver transplants. The diversity of the talks once again highlighted the variety of areas in which statistics are being used within local public and private sector organisations.

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Apr
2016

New Select Website Released!

We are delighted to announce that the new Select website has been released. The new site has been completely redesigned to provide better content and a more responsive browsing experience. Let us know if you have any comments.

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Oct
2015

More Welsh School Children “Hooked on Sport”

Results from the third national School Sport Survey were published by Sport Wales today. Having worked on the last School Sport Survey 2013, Select again worked with Sport Wales over the summer to prepare the data from the survey for analysis.

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Sep
2015

What Went Wrong with the 2015 Election Polls

The fourth joint ExIStA and RSS South West Local Group seminar took place on the 2nd July 2015 with invited speaker John Curtice, Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and President of the British Polling Council.

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