In this blog, Paul Matthews, a Senior Statistician in Scottish Government, talks about Scottish Government’s approach to improve the leadership capability of statisticians in Scottish Government through its leadership programme entitled ‘Fit for the Future’.
In this blog, Scott Heald, Director of Data and Digital Innovation in Public Health Scotland (PHS) discusses the importance of collaboration as a key feature of analytical leadership in PHS, both with key external stakeholders, and internally between different professions.
In this blog from Emma Gordon, Director of the Administrative Data Research UK programme at ESRC, Emma discusses the importance of being a leader who has come from an analytical background
In this blog, Silvia Palombi, Senior Economic Analyst at the Scottish Fiscal Commission, talks about what the SFC has been doing to help make sure that the Scottish Budget is transparent and well-scrutinised.
In this blog Director General for Regulation, Ed Humpherson, reflects on why communicating uncertainty is a constant challenge for statisticians.
In this blog, the OSR team explores the challenges of communicating uncertainty in GDP estimates, highlighting why revisions are a normal part of economic measurement and the importance of transparency in maintaining public trust in official statistics
In this blog, our Head of Private Office and Casework Manager, Kirsty, explains some of the do’s and don’ts when presenting statistics as part of an infographic.
Our Head of Research discusses how the findings from the 2023 Public Confidence in Official Statistics Survey are relevant to OSR.
In this blog, our Head Statistics Regulator for Crime and Security discusses the difficulties in understanding and interpreting crime statistics, and what OSR is doing to support producers in improving the quality of crime statistics for England and Wales.
In our latest blog, our Head of Casework and Director General set out the guidance and support available for navigating statistics during an election campaign, and our role in publicly highlighting cases where statistics and data are not published or presented in a misleading way.