This is a blog by Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors.
This is a blog by Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors.
Penny Babb, Head of Policy and Standards details the changes being made to the Code of Practice for Statistics on 5 May 2022.
Jo Mulligan, Methods Expert gives an insight into the lessons learned from using the QCovid® risk calculator in commanding public confidence in models.
Richard Laux, Deputy Director, Data and Analysis, at the Equality Hub writes a guest blog about improving reporting and reducing misuse of ethnicity statistics.
13 May 2022
Ed Humpherson, Director General for Regulation explains how OSR secures positive change in the way statistics are produced, presented and the public's confidence and understanding of them.
11 May 2022
Martin Mayock, Head of the Family Practitioner Services (FPS) Information Unit in Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care (HSC) Business Services Organisation (BSO), and a Senior Statistician in the Northern…
29 April 2022
Dr Mary Cowan explores the findings of PCOS 2021, which suggests that official statistics are relevant and accessible to many members of the public. However, there are still some who…
14 April 2022
A look into the latest Government Statistical Service cross-government housing and planning statistics work programme, and how the Code of Practice for Statistics feeds into it.
1 April 2022
Ed Humpherson answers questions raised at the prevention of misuse of statistics event on 14 March hosted by the UK Statistics Authority.
24 March 2022
On 5 May 2022, we’ll be making our first change to our Code of Practice for Statistics since its major overhaul in 2018. We’ll be changing two practices, which relate…
11 March 2022
Siobhan Tuohy-Smith writes on the importance of migration statistics when it comes to affecting real-world policy.
1 March 2022
Director General, Ed Humpherson explores his love of evaluation in our blog.
18 February 2022
Grace Pitkethly, Insight and Evaluation Manager at OSR explains how developing a more sophisticated use of evidence improves organisational insights.
11 February 2022
In our latest blog, OSR Regulator and former Police Information Analyst Ben Kendall Ward discusses how the Home Office’s National Data Quality Improvement Service (NDQIS) is improving the way police…