Dear Mike, Thank you for sharing with us your assessment of your practice of releasing market-sensitive economic data outside of market trading hours at 0700, rather than the default release time for official statistics of 0930. Under our Alternative Release Times (ART) policy it falls to the producer, in this case ONS, to periodically consider […]
Dear Alastair, Thank you for your response to our letter regarding the Health and Wellbeing Census in Scotland. We welcome the publication of the Health and Wellbeing Census Scotland: Background Report. We consider that this document will provide valuable information to users and meets the requirement for Scottish Government to review its approach to developing questions […]
Dear Tony, Thank you for your letter dated 8 January 2025 and your subsequent correspondence about inflation statistics on 27 January. You made several points about the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH), recommending their de-accreditation. As we have discussed previously, these statistics are undergoing an […]
Dear Ed, Thank you for your recent letter in response to our comments on the OSR’s reviews of the Winter CIS and other issues. Although I accept that there has been some progress in demonstrating OSR’s independence from the ONS, I believe there is further to go before Merle and others are likely to accept […]
Dear Ed, Thank you for your letter of 13 February regarding the Scottish Governent’s review of our approach to developing questions for the Health and Wellbeing Census. I can confirm that the outcomes of this review have now been published. Health and Wellbeing Census Scotland: Background Report Your letter also raises important questions around the […]
Dear Ed, I commissioned my team in Scottish Government to undertake an internal review to examine whether statisticians had sufficient seniority and influence to effectively respond to challenges during the 2022 Census programme. This followed on from the publication of reports by the Office for Statistical Regulation in 2019 and 2023 and subsequent discussions with […]
Dear Alastair, Thank you for sharing that the internal review on Scotland’s Census 2022 is complete and has now been published. I am pleased to hear that you and your team have taken the opportunity to build on our suggestions highlighted in our 2019 and 2023 Assessment reports to reflect and learn lessons from your […]
Dear Alex, Liz Since our letter in July 2023, we have continued to review ONS’s transformation of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) against the Code of Practice for Statistics, alongside our review of LFS-derived Labour Market Statistics following the accreditation suspension last year. We have today published a progress report which consolidates our work on […]
Email correspondence: Sai to Office for Statistics Regulation (13 December 2024) Dear OSR, I respectfully request that you review the methodology of data published by the MoJ Justice Data Lab, for a. failure to conduct multiple comparisons correction (MCC) / account for family-wise error (FWE), and b. possible p-hacking by failure to disclose all considered […]
To: Stuart Homann, Environment Agency Simon Toms, Environment Agency Steven King, Natural Resources Wales Ben Wilson, Natural Resources Wales David Maxwell, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Alan Walker, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Dear all, We have recently been in touch with you and your colleagues involved in producing the […]