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.
3 January 2023
In our latest blog, Job, one of our regulators, demystifies the job of a statistics regulator. Statistics regulator. It’s quite a strange-sounding job. If you asked a random person on…
7 December 2022
Ed Humpherson reflects upon the past year and sets out OSR’s priorities for the 2023/24.
2 December 2022
Mark Pont explores the themes discussed in OSR's Approaches to presenting uncertainty in the statistical system report and answers questions on how to communicate uncertainty in statistics.
4 November 2022
Helen Miller-Bakewell, Head of Development and Impact at OSR, explores ways the Code of Practice for Statistics can assist producers of statistics and analysis increase their efficiency while facing pressure…
7 October 2022
Dr Mary Cowan, Research Specialist at OSR, and Shayda Kashef, Public Engagement Manager at ADR UK describe the motivations behind the recent report on public perceptions of the public good…
23 September 2022
Assessment Programme Lead, Mark Pont, discusses the importance of statisticians understanding and communicating uncertainty in their statistics, in light of our recent report exploring approaches to presenting uncertainty in the…
21 September 2022
Ed Humpherson responds to concerns raised with OSR regarding the recent consultation by Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy on the Choice on units of measurements: marking and sales.
1 September 2022
Statistics Regulator Siobhan Tuohy-Smith discusses what we mean by intelligent transparency and how you can be an advocate for intelligent transparency across government and official data, statistics and wider analysis. So…
26 August 2022
Statistics Regulator, Emily Carless explores the work done to communicate data on Covid-19 publicly, from inside and outside the official statistics system, supporting an army of armchair epidemiologists. In 2020,…
19 August 2022
Emma Sharland of the English Health Statistics and Steering Group reviews the work they have undertaken to make health statistics in England more coherent, following a Systemic Review undertaken by…