Dear Ben, Improving the public value of health and care statistics in England As you are aware, OSR has undertaken a Systemic Review aimed at improving the coherence and accessibility of Health and Care Statistics. As part of this work, over the last 12 months we have been monitoring the progress of the English Health […]
Dear Iain, HEALTH STATE LIFE EXPECTANCIES STATISTICS, UK We recently carried out a short review of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics of the Health State Life Expectancies (HLE) statistics for the UK. This was prompted by the changes in methods used to estimate HLE introduced in the December 2018 bulletin. We reviewed […]
Dear Jonathan NATIONAL STATISTICS STATUS OF CONSTRUCTION PRICES AND COST INDICES, CONSTRUCTION OUTPUT AND NEW ORDERS STATISTICS Thank you to you and your teams for engaging effectively with us as you have developed your construction statistics following our assessment. On behalf of the Board of the Statistics Authority, I am pleased to confirm the re-designation […]
Dear John, NATIONAL STATISTICIAN’S RESPONSE TO OSR JOINING UP DATA REPORT Thank you for your response to OSR’s Joining Up Data report about data sharing and linkage across government. Your work plan sets out examples of initiatives that will help achieve our shared vision of analysts across government being empowered to make data linkage a core […]
Dear Iain, CONFIRMATION OF NATIONAL STATISTICS DESIGNATION FOR ONS AVOIDABLE MORTALITY STATISTICS We have reviewed the action that your team has taken to address the requirements in Assessment Report 339: Statistics on Avoidable Mortality. On behalf of the Board of the UK Statistics Authority, I am pleased to confirm the National Statistics designation of these […]
Dear Iain ASSESSMENT OF CANCER SURVIVAL STATISTICS Thank you for inviting us to assess ONS’s experimental cancer survival statistics (adult cancer survival by stage of diagnosis and cancer survival for children) against the Code of Practice for Statistics. We have completed the first phase of the assessment and have today published our Assessment Report. I […]
Dear Jonathan STATISTICS ON INCOME AND EARNINGS Many thanks for providing your most recent update (December 2018) against the recommendations of OSR’s February 2015 review into the Coherence and Accessibility of Statistics on Income and Earnings. Our overall conclusion is that, while some progress has been made in addressing the three outstanding areas for improvement […]
Dear Ed I am writing to thank you and the Office for Statistics Regulation for your recently published review, ‘Joining up Data for Better Statistics’, which provides a crucial insight into current data linkage activity across government and future opportunities. Data linkage can achieve radical benefits for public policy decisions and research so long as […]
Dear Jonathan Assessment of Statistics on Public Sector Finances Thank you for the correspondence outlining the actions that have been taken to address the requirements in Assessment Report number 316 about the Public Sector Finances. On behalf of the Board of the Statistics Authority, the Office for Statistics Regulation has reviewed these actions and I […]
Dear Ian Assessment of Population Estimates and Projections Thank you for the correspondence outlining the actions that have been taken to address the requirements in Assessment Report number 309 on Population Estimates and Projections. On behalf of the Board of the Statistics Authority, I have reviewed these on the advice of the Assessment team and […]