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Letter from Sir Michael Scholar to Rt Hon Francis Maude – Monitoring Brief: Creating official statistics from administrative data

Letter from Sir Michael Scholar to Rt Hon Francis Maude – Monitoring Brief: Creating official statistics from administrative data

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Published
16 March 2012
Last updated on
23 November 2020
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Monitoring Brief 3/12

Monitoring Brief 3/12

This Brief reviews whether the statistical service has sufficient access to, and influence over, the administrative data sources from which official statistics are increasingly drawn. It also looks at some of the statistical implications of the Government’s Open Data policy. It concludes that in order to ensure quality and maximise value, some further steps need to be taken – both to improve access for statistical purposes and to build confidence that appropriate security arrangements exist to protect confidential information about individuals and businesses.