Assessment Programme Lead, Mark Pont, discusses the importance of statisticians understanding and communicating uncertainty in their statistics, in light of our recent report exploring approaches to presenting uncertainty in the statistical system. Uncertainty exists in so many aspects of life and taking it into account is an important part of the decisions we make. I […]
Ed Humpherson responds to concerns raised with OSR regarding the recent consultation by Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on the Choice on units of measurements: marking and sales.
Statistics Regulator Siobhan Tuohy-Smith discusses what we mean by intelligent transparency and how you can be an advocate for intelligent transparency across government and official data, statistics and wider analysis. So what is intelligent transparency? Everyone, I think, has a fairly clear idea of what transparency means. It means being open or clear – getting the […]
Statistics Regulator, Emily Carless explores the work done to communicate data on Covid-19 publicly, from inside and outside the official statistics system, supporting an army of armchair epidemiologists. In 2020, our director Ed Humpherson blogged about the growing phenomenon of the armchair epidemiologist. Well, during the pandemic I became an armchair epidemiologist too. Or maybe […]
Emma Sharland of the English Health Statistics and Steering Group reviews the work they have undertaken to make health statistics in England more coherent, following a Systemic Review undertaken by OSR.
OSR’s Head of Data and Methods, Emily Barrington explores the work taken to deploy artificial intelligence and statistical modelling within government while adhering to a high regulatory standard
OSR Statistics Regulators Vicky Stone and Chris Davies look at the role of statistics in the Cost of Living Crisis debate.
Sir Robert Chote, the newly appointed Chair of the UK Statistics Authority reflects on our State of the Statistical System 2021/22 report, and why he wanted to take on the role of Chair. It was good fortune, rather than planning on my part, that within weeks of taking on the role of Chair of the […]
Grace Pitkethly, Insights and Evaluation Manager at OSR writes about how the use of official statistics can improve the already essential tool of evaluation to ensure the effective functioning of government.
In our latest guest blog, Richard Laux, Deputy Director, Data and Analysis, at the Race Disparity Unit, discusses the proposed changes to the Ethnicity facts and figures website, for which a consultation was launched today. The consultation will gather views about how users of Ethnicity facts and figures understand the drivers and factors behind disparities, […]