Dear Mike Thank you for inviting OSR to review your practices around the preparation and release of information about revisions to estimates of GDP. I will ask my team to carry out and publish a short review, which we expect to cover the three areas outlined in your letter: Processes and quality assurance involved in […]
Dear Ed, As you know we have just published the indicative impacts of our usual annual update of UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP). At the end of September we will incorporate these figures into the Quarterly National Accounts before issuing the new Blue Book in October. This is an important milestone as it will be […]
Dear John Statistics on Sexual Offences in England and Wales We’ve reviewed sexual offences statistics which are currently published in the Sexual offences in England and Wales overview and the associated Sexual offences victim characteristics, England and Wales and Sexual offences prevalence and trends, England and Wales. We welcome that your team requested that we review […]
Dear Mike, Assessment of the Profitability of UK Companies and Gross Operating Surplus of private non-financial corporations statistics As part of our Spotlight on Quality: Assuring Confidence in Economic Statistics programme, we continue to develop the quality focused assessment framework. This follows the recent pilot assessment of your Producer Price Indices. We have selected the […]
Dear Alex, Darren ONS’s transformation of the Labour Force Survey (TLFS) Since our initial letter in November 2022, we have continued to liaise with your teams as we review ONS’s transformation of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) against the Code of Practice for Statistics. We have today published a progress report, providing a summary of […]
Dear Mike Assessment of Producer Price Indices We have completed our quality-focused assessment of your Producer Price Indices (PPIs). This assessment used a newly developed assessment framework, based on the Code of Practice for Statistics, that focuses more intensively on the quality of economic statistics. It is the first in a series of quality-focused assessments […]
Dear Ed, Re: England and Wales Mortality Statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Thank you for your letter of 4 May 2023 communicating the findings of OSR’s recent review into ONS mortality statistics, with a focus on compliance with the Quality pillar of the Code of Practice for Statistics. As noted in […]
Dear Jen Update on the Review of 2021 England and Wales Census data on Gender Identity I wrote to you in April 2023 about our decision to undertake a short review of statistics on gender identity based on data collected as part of the 2021 England and Wales Census. This was in part a response […]
Dear Sir Ian Assessment of Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK Thank you for inviting us to assess Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information statistics, jointly produced by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) against the Code of […]
Dear Liz Updated Sustainable Development Goals article I am writing to welcome your decision to update your article on Sex and gender within the context of data collected for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The background is that I wrote to you last year about an article on your website that aimed to set out […]