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Statement on OSR’s separation from ONS
24 October 2024
The UK Statistics Authority is responsible for ensuring that official statistics serve the public good. To deliver this responsibility, it has two executive offices: the Office for National Statistics, which is the UK’s national statistical institute and produces many of […]
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Correspondence
Siobhan Tuohy-Smith to Mike Keoghan: Assessment of Business Investment statistics
17 October 2024
Dear Mike Assessment of Business Investment statistics We have completed our quality-focused assessment of ONS’s statistics on Business Investment. This is the sixth assessment in our Spotlight on Quality programme, which aims to provide continued assurance that the UK statistical […]
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Blog Uncategorised
Improving mental health services in Northern Ireland: The Regional Mental Health Outcomes Framework
20 September 2024
In our latest guest blog, Oscar Donnelly, Lead for the Mental Health Outcomes Framework, discusses the outcomes-based approach to collect standardised mental health data and statistics using the new patient record system ‘Encompass’… In 2021, OSR’s Review of Mental Health Statistics […]
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Regulation Committee
13 August 2024
OSR’s work is overseen by the Authority Board’s regulation committee (made up of non-executive directors, and with no statistical producer in attendance). The role of the Regulation Committee is to help shape the regulation strategy and work programme and to […]
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Correspondence
Ed Humpherson to Mr Jeremy Balfour MSP: Sustrans’ Walking and Cycling Index
7 August 2024
Dear Mr Jeremy Balfour MSP Thank you for your correspondence regarding the Walking and Cycling Index produced by Sustrans. You note concerns have been raised with you by a constituent who has also raised their concerns directly with the Office […]
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Publication
Systemic Review Outline: Economic Statistics
31 July 2024
Context The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has recently undertaken several quality assessments of specific economic statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), including those published on Business Profits and Gross Operating Surplus, GDP revisions, Producer Price Indices […]
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Blog Economy
Revising GDP: The challenge of uncertainty
22 July 2024
Most important statistics are actually an “estimate” – a statistical judgement that is subject to some degree of uncertainty. So how can we best communicate that uncertainty while still maintaining trust in the statistics themselves? Following criticism of notable UK […]
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Correspondence
Jane Naylor to Ed Humpherson: Trade Union Membership statistics 2023
23 May 2024
Dear Ed, I am writing to inform you of our intention to publish the Trade Union Membership Statistics Bulletin for 2023 as official statistics in development. The publication predominantly produces statistics extracted from Labour Force Survey (LFS) microdata from the […]
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Publication
Statistics for the public good: Facilitating their role in public policy
21 May 2024
The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)’s vision is that statistics serve the public good. There are multiple routes through which statistics can serve the public good, and our new literature review explores one of these, considering the role of official […]
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Election 2024: Guidance on the use of statistics in a pre-election period
7 May 2024
The Office for Statistics Regulation’s (OSR) role is to promote and safeguard the use of statistics in public debate. We use our independent voice to stand up for statistics and to represent the public, reporting publicly where we have concerns […]