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.
When I was placed in OSR for an eight-week internship, as part of the Civil Service summer internship scheme, I didn’t know what to expect. I study English literature at…
In our latest blog Head of Casework, Elise Rohan, talks about claims made during political party conferences and our expectations of producers in this period... Every autumn, political parties in…
Our exploration of misleadingness brought us into insightful conversations with philosopher and PhD student, Kyle Adams, from the University of Waterloo. Together, we revisited and refined our understanding of misleadingness.…
20 September 2024
In our latest guest blog, Oscar Donnelly, Lead for the Mental Health Outcomes Framework, discusses the outcomes-based approach to collect standardised mental health data and statistics using the new patient record…
13 September 2024
Our findings from our report on enabling greater data sharing and linkage are clear: sharing and linking of datasets is still the exception, rather than the norm. Barriers to progress…
30 August 2024
“Statistics may be used to provoke and to challenge the status quo; but Ofcom is entitled to insist – in the public interest – that they should not be misused…
30 August 2024
Our latest blog in this series is from Robert Cann, Policy and Government Relations Manager at Full Fact. Robert highlights that the way statistics are presented is crucial for how…
23 August 2024
The latest blog in this series is from Paul Matthews, a Senior Statistician working in the Office of the Chief Statistician (OCS) in Scottish Government. Paul talks about Scottish Government’s…
16 August 2024
Our latest blog in this series is from Scott Heald, Director of Data and Digital Innovation and Head of Profession for Statistics in Public Health Scotland (PHS). Scott offers his thoughts…
9 August 2024
The latest blog in this series is from Emma Gordon, Director of the £105m Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) programme at ESRC. Since 2018, ADR UK has been working…
2 August 2024
In our latest blog in this series, Silvia Palombi, Senior Economic Analyst at the Scottish Fiscal Commission (SFC), talks about what the SFC has been doing to help make sure that…
2 August 2024
In our latest blog Director General for Regulation, Ed Humpherson, reflects on why communicating uncertainty is a constant challenge for statisticians… A recurring motif of OSR reports is the need…
22 July 2024
Most important statistics are actually an “estimate” – a statistical judgement that is subject to some degree of uncertainty. So how can we best communicate that uncertainty while still maintaining…