Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors present think pieces on how the different areas of the statistical system can affect and benefit the public.
Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors present think pieces on how the different areas of the statistical system can affect and benefit the public.
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…
In our latest 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. You may…
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…
17 May 2024
Our Head of Research discusses how the findings from the 2023 Public Confidence in Official Statistics Survey are relevant to OSR. At the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR), we have…
19 April 2024
As the first blog in this series, Catherine Hutchinson, Head of the Evaluation Task Force (ETF), talks about what the ETF has been doing to make sure that robust evidence…
22 March 2024
In our latest blog one of our Head Statistics Regulators discusses what it means to be an accredited official statistic and how official statistics accreditation can help users and producers…
15 March 2024
In our latest blog, our Head of Data and Methods discusses the benefits and risks of AI in official statistics, and outlines OSR’s strategy for AI in the year to…
8 March 2024
In our latest blog, our Head of Private Office discusses comparability of data across the UK, which was topical at a recent Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee… When…
7 March 2024
In our latest guest blog, Johnny Runge and Beti Baraki from the Policy Institute at King’s College London discuss how individuals may use statistics in their personal lives, and they…
22 February 2024
In our latest blog Director General for Regulation, Ed Humpherson, discusses the divergence between internal positivity and external scepticism about analysis in Government, and how transparency is key to benefitting…
9 February 2024
In our latest blog Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation discusses the 5 Safes model as a key feature to support data sharing and linkage… In OSR’s data linkage report…
2 February 2024
In our latest guest blog Helen Barugh, Head of Statistics Policy and User Engagement, discusses transforming the statistics produced by the UK Health Security Agency… What is the Health…
12 January 2024
In our latest blog, Mark Pont, OSR’s Assessment Programme Lead and Philip Wales, NISRA’s Chief Executive discuss engaging with statistics users and how user input can help decision making… In…