Time doesn’t stand still
Penny Babb, Head of Policy and Standards details the changes being made to the Code of Practice for Statistics on 5 May 2022.
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Exploring the value of statistics for the public
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.
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Thinking about Trustworthiness, Quality, and Value across Housing and Planning statistics
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.
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Acting against the misuse of statistics is an international challenge
Ed Humpherson answers questions raised at the prevention of misuse of statistics event on 14 March hosted by the UK Statistics Authority.
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Time for a change: amending the Code of Practice to allow alternative release times for official statistics
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 […]
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QCovid® case study: Lessons in commanding public confidence in models
Jo Mulligan, Methods Expert gives an insight into the lessons learned from using the QCovid® risk calculator in commanding public confidence in models.
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Guest blog: Improving reporting and reducing misuse of ethnicity statistics
Richard Laux, Deputy Director, Data and Analysis, at the Equality Hub writes a guest blog about improving reporting and reducing misuse of ethnicity statistics.
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Why migration statistics matter
Siobhan Tuohy-Smith writes on the importance of migration statistics when it comes to affecting real-world policy.
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Why I love evaluation
Director General, Ed Humpherson explores his love of evaluation in our blog.
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Insight: seeing the bigger statistical picture
Grace Pitkethly, Insight and Evaluation Manager at OSR explains how developing a more sophisticated use of evidence improves organisational insights.