OSR Research Programme

  2. Statistics for the public good: Understanding and enhancing trust in official statistics

    At the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR), we assert that official statistics serve the public good as public assets that provide insight, which allows them to be used widely for informing understanding and shaping action. Their ability to do this relies on trust, as without trust, the insights they convey are unlikely to be used. However, […]

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  5. Statistics for the public good: Facilitating their role in public policy 

    The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR)’s vision is that statistics serve the public good. There are multiple routes through which statistics can serve the public good, and our new literature review explores one of these, considering the role of official statistics in public policy across the UK. The literature review is part of OSR’s wider […]

  8. Quality and statistics: an OSR perspective

    An OSR think piece about quality in statistics, the challenges producers face when communicating quality, and the environment and behaviours within organisations that support quality.

  9. Statistical Literacy – it’s all in the communication

    This think-piece and the accompanying research review are our first publications specifically on this topic area. We hope that this evidence base will provide a useful resource for others who are working in this area. What is statistical literacy? Though the concept of statistical literacy has been discussed and researched for many decades, we found […]

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