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Producing quality, trustworthy and valuable information? Why wouldn’t you?
Mairi Spowage, Deputy Chief Executive at the Scottish Fiscal Commission, describes using the Code of Practice for Statistics in a forecasting organisation.
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Overcoming barriers to change
Producers told us time and resource were barriers they faced to implementing change and yet we heard some great examples of how this is being tackled.
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Business Plan and Regulatory Work Programme for 2018 to 2019
Today we are publishing our Business Plan and Regulatory Work Programme for 2018 to 2019.
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Improving and innovating: enhancing the value of statistics and data
Statistics are of value when they support society’s need for information; they should be useful, easy to access, remain relevant, and support understanding of important issues.
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The (almost) mental health ‘data revolution’
Mental health has been in the forefront of news and debate for a while now.
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Maximising the value of statistics through systemic reviews
These reviews allow us to look at the relationships and signposting between statistics and to spot gaps and overlaps.
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‘Truth surge’: celebrating the success of statistics
“After the fears about post truth, we’ve now got the truth surge”. So said Rupert McNeil, Civil Service Chief People Officer, to me…
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The new Code of Practice is coming…
The new Code of Practice will be published next Thursday.
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Visa: innovation, brand… and robostat 2.0
At the VISA innovation centre at Paddington in London, I met this little robot.