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Read the latest blogs exploring how our data is being used to tackle poverty and promote economic wellbeing.

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18 Jun 2026

Benefit reliance across Great Britain: Insights from the Economic Wellbeing Explorer

The data within the Economic Explorer has been refreshed to the 26th of April 2026. 
Economic WellbeingInsightsSmart dataCost of Living Crisis
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11 May 2026

One in six adults claims Universal Credit, but who relies on it most? New data for local authorities

Localised insights on financial vulnerability, using income data to understand how benefits support overall economic wellbeing.
PolicyEconomic WellbeingSmart data
24 Mar 2026

Podcast: AI+U - AI Value chain and Sovereignty

Our Chief Data Scientist Gordon Baggott joined AI+U to share his thoughts on opportunities of utilising the public sector data for public good
Smart dataInnovation
12 Feb 2026

New research-ready datasets available in myFoundry

There are six new datasets in the data catalogue on myFoundry; Income and Spend microdata datasets, and Small Business microdata datasets.
ResearchFINDSSmart dataSME
22 Jan 2026

Podcast: Building Trust at Scale Through Smarter Financial Data

Recently Smart Data Foundry CEO Dougie Robb was a guest on the podcast Digital Customer Communications: Regulated with Sam Kendall.
InsightsSmart dataData Protection
5 Dec 2025

Creating meaningful data visualisation from 5m de-identified bank accounts

How do we make sure our data insights can have immediate impact upon viewing? 
InnovationSmart dataEconomic Wellbeing
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15 May 2025

Using banking transaction data for social good

A practitioner's SWOT analysis of de-identified consumer banking data for researchers.
ResearchFINDSSmart data
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1 Apr 2025

Leveraging Smart Data to Complement Official Statistics in Responsive Policy Design

Whilst the challenges of using official statistics are not new, what is new is the availability of alternative data sources which can complement them.
PolicyNowcastSmart data
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5 Mar 2025

Is there a Net Zero Poverty Premium?

Only 20% of people in Scotland can comfortably afford the home upgrades required to meet the Scottish Government’s net zero targets for buildings by 2045.
InsightsEconomic WellbeingSmart data

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