This report looks at the communications around the International Passenger Survey (IPS) related to methods changes implemented between September 2017 and April 2018. It looks at how changes to the IPS data collection methods were communicated in advance of their introduction, how the Office for National Statistics communicated delays to IPS publications, and how quality […]
Statistics on City Regions – Systemic Review
Assessment of Compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: Statistics on Regional Gross Value Added (Phase 2).
House price statistics are key economic indicators and provide important insights into the wider economy and society by helping users to understand trends in the UK and the Northern Ireland housing markets. Economic policy makers use the indices to assess impacts on both the demand and supply sides of the economy, to inform decisions about […]
R-GVA statistics are an essential part of what makes up the economic intelligence of the nations and regions of the UK, informing areas such as the development of economic policy and debates and what causes the UK’s productivity growth. Policymakers need to dive deep beneath the statistical surface to understand the economy region-by-region, city-by-city, town-by-town, […]
A review of the continuing compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics: long-term student migration statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics. Related links: Letter from Ed Humpherson to John Pullinger Letter from Iain Bell to Ed Humpherson
A review of the continuing compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics: The quality of Labour Force Survey estimates produced by the Office for National Statistics. Related links: Response to Compliance Review: the quality of Labour Force Survey estimates
This document relates to three separate releases and reports on breaches of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, or the relevant Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Orders, to which the Code applies as if it included these orders.
Crime and justice is changing and we think it is important that the statistics continue to reflect the real world; undoubtedly there are challenges to doing this. In our review of the Public value of crime and justice statistics in the UK we identified a need for statistics that join-up across the system, yet the […]
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes statistics and data on the transactions of particular groups of institutions (sectors) within the UK economy in its publications Quarterly National Accounts (QNA), UK Economic Accounts (UKEA) and, since March 2016, in the stand-alone publication Quarterly Sector Accounts (QSA). ONS’s decision to add QSA to this suite of […]