Helpful guidance

1. UKSA admin data webpage with case examples, talks from RSS event, Exposure Draft report and tool for non-statisticians:
   http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/monitoring/administrative-data-and-officialstatistics/index.html
2. NSO Guidance, Use of Administrative or Management Information:
   https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/blog/2014/05/interim-administrative-data-guidance/
3. Using Administrative Data: Good Practice Guidance for Statisticians:
   https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Interim-Admin-Data-guidance.pdf
4. ESS network project on administrative data for business statistics – including Deliverable 2011/6.5, Final list of quality indicators and associated guidance, and Deliverable 2011/6.1, Basic list of quality indicators
   http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/admindata-sga-3
5. BLUE ETS Deliverable 4.2, Report on methods preferred for the quality indicators of administrative data sources: http://www.blueistat.it/fileadmin/deliverables/Deliverable4.2.pdf
6. ESS network Work Package 2a, Deliverables 2.2 and 2.4 – to check the suitability of an administrative data source before first use:
   http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/admindata-sga3
7. US Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, US Census Bureau data tool for checking a new administrative data source:
   bls.gov/osmr/datatool.pdf
8. ONS Quality Centre, Guidelines for Measuring Statistical Output Quality:
   http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/quality/guidelines-for-measuringstatistical-quality/index.html

Contacts

If you have any questions about this toolkit, please contact:

• regulation@statistics.gov.uk

Further advice about statistical practice can be sought from:

• the National Statistician’s Good Practice Team (GPT): goodpracticeteam@statistics.gsi.gov.uk
• ONS Quality Centre:
  quality.centre@ons.gsi.gov.uk