DUG Awards
An award is made each year at DUG's Annual Conference at the Royal Society in recognition of advances made to produce better information. Here are the winners:
2009 Award
Presented to: Stephen Penneck of the Office for National Statistics
For: The decision to code ONS's sample surveys with its OAC geodemographic classification
2008 Award
Presented to: House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, chaired by Michael Fallon MP
For: The report: "Counting the Population".
2007 Award
Presented to: Chris Denham
For: Tirelessly promoting improved access to data
2006 Award
Presented to: Michael Cross
For: The Guardian's "Free Our Data" campaign
2005 Award
Presented to: University of Leeds (Dan Vickers) and the Office for National Statistic team (represented by Greg Phillpotts)
For: The "National Classification of Output Areas" (aka OAC)