Dear Siobhan Northern Ireland Economic Statistics – progress in meeting users’ needs I am writing to you following the recent review we concluded on the progress NISRA has made in addressing gaps in Northern Ireland’s economic statistics. We carried out our review to take stock of what has been achieved over the last five or so years of […]
Dear Deborah Thank you for contacting my team about an exemption from the Code of Practice for Statistics to permit a later release time for NISRA’s weekly deaths statistics for the week ending 18 December 2020. You propose to publish on 23 December to avoid publication of the statistics on Christmas Day. Given the circumstances […]
Dear Siobhan Assessment of Northern Ireland Planning Statistics We have reviewed the actions that your team has taken to address the requirements in Assessment Report number 350: Statistics on Planning in Northern Ireland. On behalf of the Board of the UK Statistics Authority, I am pleased to confirm the awarding of National Statistics designation for Northern Ireland […]
Dear Siobhan Department for Communities’ Benefits Statistics Summary for Northern Ireland I am writing to you following our review of the Department for Communities’ (DfC) Benefits Statistics Summary for Northern Ireland against the Code of Practice for Statistics. The statistics have been considered as part of a wider review of benefit statistics, along with our […]
Dear Siobhan Transparency of data related to COVID-19 I am writing to draw your attention to the statement and blog published today by the Office for Statistics Regulation on communicating data during the pandemic and to ask you to raise awareness of the principles in the statement in relevant Departments in Northern Ireland. Our aim […]
Dear Siobhan Northern Ireland Tourism Statistics Thank you for your letter of 29 September 2020 regarding Northern Ireland tourism statistics. I welcome the publication of your 2019 Northern Ireland Annual Tourism National Statistics later this month, following the suspension of this output earlier in the year due to the data from the Household Travel Survey […]
Dear Ed This note follows on from our correspondence in April regarding the temporary suspension of the Northern Ireland Tourism Statistics. As you may recall, the suspension was due to the unavailability of the Central Statistics Office’s (CSO’s) Household Travel Survey data which provides an estimate of overnight trips to NI by visitors from the […]
Dear David Assessment of 2021 Censuses in the UK – Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) Response to Preliminary Findings We have reviewed the actions that NISRA has taken to address the findings in Assessment Report 345: 2021 Censuses in the UK – Preliminary Findings. These findings aim to build on the existing work […]
Dear Siobhan STATISTICS FROM THE NORTHERN IRELAND SAFE COMMUNITY SURVEY (NISCS) We have completed our review of the compliance of statistics from the Northern Ireland Safe Community Survey, produced by the Department of Justice (DoJ), with the Code of Practice for Statistics. This was the final part of our three-part review, which began in May […]
Dear Siobhan NORTHERN IRELAND MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION MEASURE I am writing to you following our review of the indices of deprivation statistics produced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), the Scottish Government and the Welsh Government against the Code of Practice for Statistics. The statistics were reviewed against the three pillars of the Code: trustworthiness, quality and value. As you are aware, our […]