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.
My favourite number is 6. It was the number Roberto Carlos, my footballing idol, wore when he played for Brazil. As a kid I remember trying to recreate his infamous…
Over the past 18 months we’ve talked a lot about transparency. We’ve made public interventions such as our call for UK governments to provide more transparency around COVID data, and…
The Office for Statistics Regulation’s ‘Lessons Learned’ report argues that we should not be complacent: we need to press harder for more trustworthy, better quality, and higher value statistics.
22 September 2021
We are pleased to announce that a 12-week consultation will begin on 28 September 2021.
14 September 2021
In 2019, we started a systemic review of loneliness statistics to investigate the state of official statistics on loneliness in the UK.
9 September 2021
We can retain trust by actively looking for our mistakes, being open when we find them and by learning from them.
7 September 2021
This is a guest blog from Jonny Smyth, Head of Communications & Fundraising at Action Mental Health.
27 August 2021
Value for me is about why it all matters. Value means that statistics and data are useful, easy to access, remain relevant, and support understanding of important issues. These things…
30 July 2021
As part of our work on statistical leadership, we are hosting a series of guest blogs. This blog is from Stian Westlake, Chief Executive at the Royal Statistical Society.
23 July 2021
Quality simply means that statistics do what they set out to do and, crucially, that the best possible methods and sources are used to achieve that.
16 July 2021
What are the consequences for young people leaving school as a result of the pandemic? How can more detailed statistics about school leavers help us understand and effect real change…
14 July 2021
At OSR we’ve long been concerned about the risks that a world of abundant information and misinformation could lead to a catastrophic loss of confidence in statistics and data –…
8 July 2021
I was very interested in a recent Social Finance report on how to secure impact at scale. One of their points is that, if you want to see impact at…