Regulatory Guidance

  1. Ensuring Public Accountability

    Official statistics  Producers of official statistics Official statistics producers are accountable to the public for how well their statistics serve the public good.   Public accountability requires demonstration of how the Standards for Official Statistics are achieved, based on evidence of practice and an openness to listen and respond to feedback.   To enable public accountability, we […]

  2. Putting the Code Principles into Practice

    Everyone can apply or draw on the Code of Practice for Statistics. It can help anyone using data and producing statistics to work in a way that allows others to have confidence in their commitment to delivering the best possible outputs.  The Code is based on three core principles, Trustworthiness, Quality and Value (TQV), with […]