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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 […]
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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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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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 […]
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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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 […]
Correspondence

Ed Humpherson to Liz McKeown: Annual Business Survey Statistics – Confirmation of accredited official statistics status

26 April 2024

Dear Liz Annual Business Survey Statistics: Confirmation of accredited official statistics status We have independently reviewed the actions that your team has taken to address the five requirements outlined in our assessment report that we judged must be met for […]
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Fostering a robust government evaluation culture

19 April 2024

As the first blog in this series, Catherine Hutchinson, Head of the Evaluation Task Force (ETF), talks about what the ETF has been doing to make sure that robust evidence is the driving force behind government spending decisions on policies […]