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127 news items found
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OSR statement on the impact of COVID-19 on the Labour Force Survey
5 February 2021 — Statement
We continue to be impressed by the pace at which organisations have adapted their data collection and dissemination processes to provide necessary information on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting…
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Office for Statistics Regulation highlights widespread and critical need for excellence in statistical leadership
3 February 2021 —
Today, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has published its review on Statistical Leadership, it highlights the importance of Governments across the UK showing leadership in use of numbers and…
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UK Data on Hospital Capacity and Occupancy
17 December 2020 — Statement
In many cases, data on hospital capacity and occupancy are not easy to find or interpret. To help users, we’ve examined a range of outputs to see if we can answer some straightforward questions that we have been…
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OSR publishes its review: The public good of statistics; what we know so far
9 December 2020 — Announcement
Today we have published our review ‘The public good of statistics; what we know so far’. This review has been published as part of our Research Programme launched in 2019,…
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OSR launches its review of poverty statistics
20 November 2020 — Announcement
Following on from our blog published earlier this year on the trouble with measuring poverty, we are beginning our review on income-based poverty statistics in the UK. We’ve been working…
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The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) Publishes its Reviews of UK Benefit Statistics
18 November 2020 — Announcement
OSR has today published a package of reviews concerning UK benefit statistics. This includes a full assessment of Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) benefit statistics for Great Britain and a…
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OSR Statement regarding transparency of data related to COVID-19
5 November 2020 — Statement
The UK Statistics Authority’s vision is simple: Statistics should serve the public good. By championing high standards, we seek to uphold public confidence in statistics that serve the public good.…
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Are statistics serving the Public Good? Our Research Programme is going to help us find out
4 November 2020 — Announcement
Since the launch of our research programme, we have been finding out exactly what problems currently exist around understanding the public good of statistics, such as: difficulties defining and measuring…
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Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) reflects on record volumes of casework
29 October 2020 —
The UK Statistics Authority has today published its Annual Review of Casework. Making public statements about the dissemination and use of statistics has been an important part of the Authority’s work…
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The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) Suggests a Range of Improvements Following the Assessment of ONS’s Business Demography Statistics
28 October 2020 —
OSR has today published a full assessment of ONS’s business demography statistics. This report suggests that a range of improvements is needed for these statistics to fully meet National Statistics…