ONS Local Workshop: How to use the NOMIS API

ONS Local has been established by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to promote evidence-based decision-making at the local level. We aim to host insightful workshops which will provide practical, technical support to help users make the most of ONS and cross government data. Sinclair Sutherland is the head of NOMIS, a website which publishes statistics related to population, society and the labour market at national, regional and local levels. These include data from current and previous censuses.

ONS Local is delighted to host Sinclair Sutherland of the University of Durham, who together with his team, runs NOMIS. NOMIS is a service provided by ONS to house and deliver an extensive range of government statistical information on the UK labour market including Employment, Unemployment, Earnings and the Annual Population Survey. NOMIS also provides access to Census data.

Following on from the introductory session the previous week, Sinclair will explain the basics of how the NOMIS API works, including demonstrating how to edit the URL address and discussing how to use discovery calls to retrieve concepts and codelists. The session will explain how to use a text editor or an API client such as Bruno (https://www.usebruno.com/) or Postman (https://www.postman.com/), to create and submit API calls. This session is open to everyone, but those who need to regularly update dashboards will find the workshop particularly useful.

The workshop fits well with the session scheduled for the following week, on using APIs with PowerBI. Attending both sessions will enable you to get the best out of your learning.

If you have any questions, please contact ons.local@ons.gov.uk.

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