Why this matters
Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation, on the Office for Statistics Regulation’s role in safeguarding official statistics.
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Why I like the Code
Sir David Spiegelhalter, former President of the Royal Statistical Society, blogs on the anniversary of the refreshed Code of Practice for Statistics.
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What you told us about the statistics on Adult Social Care across the UK
Caroline Jones writes on the engagement the Office for Statistics Regulation has undertaken with users of social care statistics across the UK.
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Move fast and don’t break things: the challenges of strategy for statistics
Ed Humpherson writes about the challenges faced by statisticians formulating strategy in a constantly changing landscape.
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A Public Listing: Committing to Trustworthiness, Quality and Value
Penny Babb explains how organisations can voluntarily apply the pillars of the Code of Practice for Statistics.
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There is more to data governance than legal compliance
Data governance sounds like an obvious thing to do, especially for statistics producers. We all have data so what could be more obvious than good governance that safeguards data uses and reassures people – research participants, public and data users alike – that their interests are ours as well? Legal compliance with appropriate procedures for […]
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The puzzle of…
Ed Humpherson writes about stagnant productivity and stalling life expectancy.
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Having a better public debate about crime
Pat MacLeod writes about why it’s not easy to say what’s happening to crime and the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) efforts to improve the public debate.
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Joining Up Data
Jeni Tennison, CEO of the Open Data Institute, responds to our Joining Up Data for Better Statistics report.
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Joining Up Data for Better Statistics
To speak to people involved in linking Government datasets is to enter a world that at times seems so ludicrous as to be Kafkaesque.