The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) recognises the important role that organisations play, both within and outside of Government, in seeking to understand poverty through data and statistics. In response to our ‘income-based poverty’ review published in 2021, in our latest guest blog, Ainslie Woods, the Income and Earnings Coherence Lead at the Office for […]
Recent placement students and interns talk about their experiences working at OSR, and the opportunities available to students and graduates.
In our latest blog, Job, one of our regulators, demystifies the job of a statistics regulator. Statistics regulator. It’s quite a strange-sounding job. If you asked a random person on the street what they think a statistics regulator does, they would probably say that it’s someone who regulates statistics. But if you asked them what […]
Ed Humpherson reflects upon the past year and sets out OSR’s priorities for the 2023/24.
Mark Pont explores the themes discussed in OSR’s Approaches to presenting uncertainty in the statistical system report and answers questions on how to communicate uncertainty in statistics.
Helen Miller-Bakewell, Head of Development and Impact at OSR, explores ways the Code of Practice for Statistics can assist producers of statistics and analysis increase their efficiency while facing pressure on resources
Dr Mary Cowan, Research Specialist at OSR, and Shayda Kashef, Public Engagement Manager at ADR UK describe the motivations behind the recent report on public perceptions of the public good and discuss the benefits of research collaborations.
Assessment Programme Lead, Mark Pont, discusses the importance of statisticians understanding and communicating uncertainty in their statistics, in light of our recent report exploring approaches to presenting uncertainty in the statistical system. Uncertainty exists in so many aspects of life and taking it into account is an important part of the decisions we make. I […]
Ed Humpherson responds to concerns raised with OSR regarding the recent consultation by Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on the Choice on units of measurements: marking and sales.
Statistics Regulator Siobhan Tuohy-Smith discusses what we mean by intelligent transparency and how you can be an advocate for intelligent transparency across government and official data, statistics and wider analysis. So what is intelligent transparency? Everyone, I think, has a fairly clear idea of what transparency means. It means being open or clear – getting the […]