To mark Analysis in Government month, OSR Regulator Oliver Fox-Tatum discusses how important analysis has become in our lives, and OSR’s hopes for the future of production, use and value of analysis in government.
Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation explains how OSR secures positive change in the way statistics are produced, presented and the public’s confidence and understanding of them.
Martin Mayock, Head of the Family Practitioner Services (FPS) Information Unit in Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care (HSC) Business Services Organisation (BSO), and a Senior Statistician in the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), discusses his experience of the assessment process in being accredited National Statistics.
Penny Babb, Head of Policy and Standards details the changes being made to the Code of Practice for Statistics on 5 May 2022.
Dr Mary Cowan explores the findings of PCOS 2021, which suggests that official statistics are relevant and accessible to many members of the public. However, there are still some who do not access statistics or consider them easy to find or easy to understand.
A look into the latest Government Statistical Service cross-government housing and planning statistics work programme, and how the Code of Practice for Statistics feeds into it.
Ed Humpherson answers questions raised at the prevention of misuse of statistics event on 14 March hosted by the UK Statistics Authority.
On 5 May 2022, we’ll be making our first change to our Code of Practice for Statistics since its major overhaul in 2018. We’ll be changing two practices, which relate to the release times of official statistics, giving producers the opportunity to release statistics at times other 9:30am, where they and we judge that this […]
Jo Mulligan, Methods Expert gives an insight into the lessons learned from using the QCovid® risk calculator in commanding public confidence in models.
Richard Laux, Deputy Director, Data and Analysis, at the Equality Hub writes a guest blog about improving reporting and reducing misuse of ethnicity statistics.