Reviews and reports

  1. Collaboration is key

    Collaboration is far from a new concept in the world of official statistics, but the refreshed Code of Practice (launched in February 2018) gives it a new emphasis. Collaboration is a cross-cutting concept in the Code, and something we should all be looking to embrace. Collaboration appears throughout the Code, for example: Trustworthiness, when statistics […]

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  2. UK and Northern Ireland House Price Indices (Phase 2) – HM Land Registry and partners

    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 […]

  3. Public value of Statistics on Housing and Planning in the UK

    Statistics on housing and planning present information about many aspects of housing, homelessness, land valuations and planning. These are critical issues of high public interest where good statistics are vital to policy and service delivery. Responsibility for housing and planning policy is devolved across the UK. This report presents findings from our Systemic Review exploring […]

  4. International perspective on criminal justice statistics

    We commissioned Professor Chris Lewis to carry out a rapid review of crime and criminal justice statistics in other countries, to inform our work in the UK. We wanted to get a sense of how UK statistics compared internationally, answering questions such as: Is coverage of existing statistics in the UK better, similar to or […]

  5. Systemic Review Outline: Innovation in Children, Education, and Skills Statistics

    Background The Office for Statistics Regulation views statistics as an essential public asset; innovation in statistics is vital to secure the public value of statistics and can add real value for users. Systemic reviews help us explore issues of public value and identify developments that the statistics system may need to make. What we plan […]

  6. Systemic Review Outline: the Public Value of Justice Statistics

    Background The Office for Statistics Regulation is keen to ensure statistics that relate to similar themes are readily accessible to users, able to answer the questions society needs to answer, and that there is a coherent narrative across sources. We see statistics as a public asset and want to maximise their value to users. Systemic […]