Systemic Reviews

  6. Reproducible Analytical Pipelines: Overcoming barriers to adoption

    Executive Summary Introduction to the review Official statistics produced by governments should uphold the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in order to serve the public good. In 2017 we championed the Reproducible Analytical Pipeline (RAP), a new way of producing official statistics developed by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the […]

  7. Statistical leadership: Making analytical insight count

    Executive Summary This report sets out the findings from our review of statistical leadership. It looks at how statistical leadership can be strengthened across government. Strong statistical leadership is essential to ensuring statistics serve the public good. Many decisions draw on statistics published by governments across the UK. Successful implementation of government policies can be […]

  8. Mental Health Statistics in England

    Attitudes towards mental health have changed in recent years. Mental health, which was often stigmatised and not discussed openly, is receiving increasing public, media and government attention as an important public health issue. There is a greater awareness that mental health is something we all have and, just like physical health, it can sometimes be good and […]

  9. Exploring the public value of statistics about post-16 education and skills – UK report

    We have been looking in detail at the value of the current data and statistics on post-16 education and skills. As an independent UK wide regulator, we are in a unique position to take a broader look at issues of importance to society and to make the case for improved statistics, across organisational and Government boundaries.  This report, our second report in this […]

  10. User engagement in the Defra Group

    Why we did this review Understanding how statistics are used and what users and other stakeholders need is critical to ensuring that statistics remain relevant and provide insight. To achieve this, statistics producers must engage with users. To explore this aspect of statistics production, we carried out a review of user engagement in the Defra […]