Dear Grant, Temporary pause of Personal well-being in the UK release Thank you for your letter outlining your plans to pause this years’ accredited official statistics publication of Personal well-being in the UK due to concerns with the quality of the Annual Population Survey (APS) which has meant that you are unable to provide the […]
Dear Mike Assessment of Business Investment statistics We have completed our quality-focused assessment of ONS’s statistics on Business Investment. This is the sixth assessment in our Spotlight on Quality programme, which aims to provide continued assurance that the UK statistical system produce high quality economic statistics. ONS publishes its Business Investment Statistics as accredited official […]
Dear Jen Accreditation of the estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales We have now completed our review of the estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). You asked us to consider reinstating the accreditation of the CSEW estimates following the temporary suspension of the accreditation in July 2022 due […]
Dear Mike Spotlight on Quality Assessment: Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR) We have completed our quality-focused assessment of ONS’s statistics on the Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Your team requested an assessment of these statistics following their introduction for Great Britain (GB) in March 2024. PIPR’s development aims to fill a long-standing gap […]
Dear Mike Suspension of the accredited official statistics status for the estimates ONS produces from the Annual Population Survey Thank you for your letter setting out the outcomes of your evaluation of the quality of the statistics produced using the Annual Population Survey (APS). We agree with your findings, and therefore agree to your request […]
In my previous letter, I explained the challenge of lower response rates of the main sample of the Labour Force Survey (LFS), and the additional sample used to build the Annual Population Survey (APS). I committed to respond with our assessment of APS quality, including the feedback provided by key users at a workshop that […]
As Deputy National Statistician and Director General for the Economic, Social and Environmental Statistics Group, I am responding to your letter regarding the Annual Population Survey. We are grateful for the feedback provided in your recent LFS-derived labour market statistics: OSR progress report. It is encouraging to hear that we have successfully communicated plans about the […]
Thank you for your letter updating us on your work to stabilise the ongoing collection of the LFS and APS. We welcome your plans for engaging with users to make a more in-depth assessment of the quality of the APS. Given the important use of these APS statistics, ONS must ensure that its analysis of […]
Dear Emma Conclusions of OSR’s review of gender identity estimates for England and Wales from Census 2021 I am writing in response to your letter of 5 September 2024 in which you request that the gender identity estimates from Census 2021 should be no longer accredited official statistics and instead should be classified as official […]
Dear Ed, Gender Identity Statistics Thank you for your engagement with our work on gender identity estimates for England and Wales from Census 2021. I am writing to you about the designation of these statistics. Gender identity is a complex and important topic. The voluntary gender identity question on Census 2021 was the first of […]