Dear Ed, Assessment of Higher Education Graduate Outcomes statistics I am writing as Lead Official for Statistics for Jisc. In accordance with Section 12(1) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, I would be grateful if your assessment team would undertake an assessment of the HE Graduate Outcomes statistics published under the HESA brand […]
Dear Ed, Accident and Emergency (A&E) Activity Statistics in Scotland: Confirmation of Accredited Official Statistics status Thank you to you and your team for conducting an assessment of Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) weekly A&E activity statistics. We are delighted that OSR’s independent review has concluded that they should have the status of accredited official statistics. […]
Dear Lucy, Statistics from the Adult Oral Health Survey in England Thank you for inviting OSR to carry out an independent review of the suite of statistics from the Adult Oral Health Survey (AOHS) in England, following the transfer of publishing responsibility from NHS Digital to the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), within […]
Dear Vivienne Mayor’s Office Violent Crime Statement We wished to follow up on the recent case regarding the use of crime statistics by the Mayor’s office. This related to a statement by the Mayor of London on violent crime on 20 July 2023. We have engaged with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) […]
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 Scott Accident and Emergency (A&E) Activity Statistics in Scotland: Confirmation of accredited official statistics status Following our assessment of the weekly A&E activity statistics produced by Public Health Scotland (PHS), we set out three requirements that we judged that you needed to meet in order for these statistics to become accredited official statistics. Accredited […]
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 Stephanie Emergency Department Statistics for Wales Thank you for outlining the steps that you have taken to assure the quality of emergency department statistics in the light of queries raised in the media this week. I welcome these steps and particularly your confirmation that the data that Local Health Boards submit to Digital Health […]
Dear Ed, I am writing regarding recent media coverage on emergency department statistics for Wales. This suggested that official statistics have been under-reported since 2011, when a category known as “clinical exceptions” was introduced. The coverage centred around claims by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine that patients in this category were not reported in […]
Dear Mr Yousef, Office for Statistics regulation review of practices around estimates for GDP Thank you for your letter received on 6 October regarding the experimental quarterly regional GDP statistics produced by ONS. The rapid review we are conducting focuses on the process and quality assurance involved in making revisions to UK GDP, the potential […]