Review published on 11 September 2018: Joining Up Data for Better Statistics Background The Office for Statistics Regulation is keen to ensure that statistics are able to answer important questions for society. We see statistics as a public asset and want to maximise their value to users. Systemic reviews help us explore issues of […]
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
Statistics from SCJS are essential in providing a current view of the experience of victims of crime and confidence in the criminal justice system in Scotland. They estimate the trends in the main crime types, as well as providing important insight into the experience of highly sensitive crimes such as partner abuse and sexual offences. […]
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
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 […]
This report concludes that the statistics on the characteristics of schools and pupils should retain their National Statistics status, as long as DfE demonstrates it has enhanced their value, quality and trustworthiness in the ways that we describe in chapters one to three. We temporarily removed the National Statistics status of statistics on unlawfully large […]
The report covers the statistics produced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) about National Insurance Number (NINo) registrations and reported quarterly in National Insurance number allocations to adult overseas nationals (NINo Allocations), and annually in Nationality at point of NINo registration of DWP working age benefit recipients (NINo Benefit Claimants), along with the […]
The importance of international migration estimates is unquestionable and the Office for Statistics Regulation has had a long interest in improving migration statistics (see the summary of our activities since 2009 below for further information). Our goal is to support the drive for a more comprehensive production of international migration statistics, with orderly release, that […]