The Impact of the 2013 ESP on UK Cancer Incidence Rates for 2011

Office for National Statistics data examining the impact of applying the 2013 European Standard Population (ESP) to calculate age-standardised cancer incidence rates. This short story focuses on the effect on previously published cancer incidence data for the year 2011. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Compare cancer incidence rates calculated with different standard populations based on the methodological change described.
• Assess the impact of the 2013 ESP on historical cancer data for 2011 as mentioned in the description.
• Understand methodological shifts in official statistics for time-series analysis of cancer incidence.
• Support policy analysis on cancer reporting based on updated age-standardisation methods.

Strengths

• Produced by the Office for National Statistics, a designated National Statistics authority.
• Explicitly focuses on a specific methodological change (2013 ESP) applied to a known year (2011).
• Licensed under OGL-UK-3.0, facilitating open use and redistribution.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Analysis of published cancer incidence data using revised age-standardisation methods.

Time Range

Focuses on data for 2011.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:35.617739; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (implied by source agency ONS).