Dear Mike, Assessment of Business Investment Statistics As part of our ongoing Spotlight on Quality: Assuring Confidence in Economic Statistics programme, we have engaged with users of economic statistics and ONS to prioritise Business Investment statistics for our next assessment. We have selected these statistics for two main reasons: Business Investment statistics contribute to estimates of […]
Dear Ed, Thank you for your letter on 7 December 2023. We welcome OSR’s conclusions from the latest review of ONS International Migration Statistics Transformation that significant improvements have been made to these vital statistics. ONS is committed to ensuring international migration statistics reach the highest quality standards as we continue to transform to an […]
Dear Emma ONS International Migration Statistics Transformation International migration statistics are vital in aiding our understanding of society. They are a key component of population statistics as well as an area of high public and policy interest. We acknowledge that measuring migration accurately and providing estimates for users in a timely manner is incredibly challenging. […]
Dear Ed Thank you for your letter. We welcome your finding that our approach to revisions is appropriate and well managed and agree with your conclusion that the more extreme criticisms that ONS received were misplaced. As you note, there are already a number of good features of ONS’s approach to revisions. We are always […]
Dear Mike Revisions of estimates of UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Following our letter in September 2023, announcing our review of the preparation and release of revisions to GDP estimates, we have today published a report setting out our findings. Timely estimates of GDP and its growth are vital indicators for users, including HM Treasury, the Bank […]
Dear Alex, Darren Review of experimental Labour Market Statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Following our letter last month announcing our review of the latest published Labour Market statistics using alternative data sources to the LFS, we have today published a report setting out our findings. Data from the Labour Force Survey […]
Dear Darren, Labour market statistics derived from the ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) Following ONS’s decision to replace its planned LFS-derived labour market statistics with a new series using additional data sources, we plan to undertake a short review of today’s statistics against key elements of the Code of Practice for Statistics. We expect that […]
Dear Phillip Business Demography Statistics: Confirmation of accredited official statistics status We have reviewed the actions taken by your team to address the requirements outlined in our assessment report, in which we set out eight requirements that we judged you needed to meet in order for Business Demography statistics to become accredited official statistics. Accredited […]
Dear Ed, Review of 2021 England and Wales Census data on Gender Identity: Interim report Thank you for your letter dated 9 October 2023 in which you set out your expectations of what is needed from ONS to provide assurance on the gender identity data collected as part of the 2021 Census of England and […]
Dear Jen Review of 2021 England and Wales Census data on Gender Identity: Interim report In my letter to you in April 2023, I shared the emerging findings from our review of statistics on gender identity based on data collected as part of the 2021 England and Wales Census. The review considers ONS’s approach to […]