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 […]
This report is prepared under the provisions of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. The Act allows an appropriate authority to request an assessment of official statistics against the Code of Practice in order for them to gain National Statistics status. This report is in response to such a request. The Northern Ireland Housing […]
This report is prepared under the provisions of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 . The Act allows an appropriate authority to request an assessment of official statistics against the Code of Practice for Official Statistics in order for them to gain National Statistics status. This report is in response to such a request. […]
Effective decisions require reliable information. Management information (MI) is aggregate information collated during the normal course of business to inform operational delivery, policy development or the management of performance. The Office for Statistics Regulation recognises that quality management actions — investigate; manage; communicate — are ongoing activities, to deliver data and statistics to the required […]
Quality Assurance of Administrative Data – A post-launch review