OSR outputs in 2023/24
Assessment Reports Published
- 2022 Census in Scotland
- Earnings and Employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK
- Spotlight on Quality: Producer Price Indices
- Accident and Emergency Activity Statistics in Scotland
- Statistics about Butterflies, England and UK
- Achievement of Curriculum for Excellence Levels statistics
- Accident and Emergency (A&E) Statistics in England (NHS England)
- Spotlight on Quality: Statistics on Profitability of UK Companies and Gross Operating Surplus of Non-Financial Corporations
- Personal Independence Payment Statistics (DWP)
Assessments Closed
- UK Business Demography Statistics
- Statistics on Statutory Homelessness in England (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC))
- Key Stage 4 Performance statistics for England
- Statistics from the People and Nature Survey (Natural England)
- Scottish Prison Population statistics
- 2022 Census in Scotland
- Accident and Emergency Activity Statistics in Scotland
Accreditations and Suspensions
New OS Accreditations
- People and Nature Survey for England
- 2022 Census in Scotland
- Accident and Emergency Activity Statistics in Scotland
Confirmations of OS Accreditation
- UK Business Demography statistics
- Key Stage 4 performance statistics for England
- Scottish Prison Population statistics
OS Reaccreditations
- Statutory Homelessness in England (de-designated 2018)
Temporary Suspensions
- Scottish House Condition Survey (Apr 2023) – suspension lifted (Feb 24)
- Labour Market statistics derived from the ONS Labour Force Surve
Compliance Checks and Rapid Reviews
- Domestic abuse question development (Office for National Statistics)
- Northern Ireland Homelessness Bulletin
- England and Wales Mortality Statistics (Office for National Statistics)
- Benefit Sanction Statistics (Department for Work and Pensions)
- Office for National Statistics’ transformation of the Labour Force Survey (TLFS): OSR judgment and progress report, July 2023
- Accident and Emergency (A&E) Monthly Waiting Times Statistics (Public Health Scotland)
- Homelessness Accommodation Provision and Rough Sleeping Monthly Management Information (Welsh Government)
- Overseas Development Assistance Statistics (Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office
- Follow up to Compliance Check of Transformed Migration Statistics
- Sexual Offences in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics)
- Wild Bird Population Statistics (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
- Inpatients, day cases and new outpatient statistics in Scotland
- Statistics from the Adult Oral Health Survey
- Experimental Labour Market Statistics (Office for National Statistics)
- Scottish House Condition Survey (Scottish Government)
- Council Tax Statistics (Valuation Office Agency)
- Review of reintroduced LFS-derived Labour Market Statistics (Office for National Statistics)
- Revisions of estimates of UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Office for National Statistics)
Strategic Reviews (including Systemic Reviews)
- Review of statistics on gender identity based on data collected as part of the 2021 England and Wales Census: interim report
- Office for National Statistics’ transformation of Long-Term International Migration Estimates: OSR progress report
- Review of mental health statistics in England: Update December 2023
- Analytical Leadership: Achieving better outcomes for citizens report
- State of the Statistics System 2022/23
- Annual Review of Casework 2022-23
Regulatory Research, Development and Guidance
- Data Sharing and Linkage for the Public Good
- Collecting and reporting data about sex and gender identity in official statistics: A guide for official statistics producers
- Office for Statistics Regulation’s Areas of Research Interest
- How statistics can serve the public good: a think piece
- Clarifying National Statistics: findings from the designation refresh project
- Statistical Practice Capability Framework
- Understanding the difference between Official Statistics and published Management Information
- Guidance on producing official statistics in development
- The Office for Statistics Regulation’s Guide to the UK Statistical System
- Future proofing the Code of Practice for Statistics: findings and next steps
- OSR’s approach to quality assessing the Covid Infection Survey
Blogs
- There’s more to statistical communication than avoiding truncated axes…
- Why does analytical leadership matter? What we’ve found so far
- Guest Blog: The Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard
- Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you want to go
- Guest Blog: Improving ethnicity data quality in the public sector
- Why misleading statistics should never become a catchphrase
- Intelligent transparency – or how the sausage gets made
- How do people use official statistics to make decisions?
- Shining the spotlight on the quality of economic statistics
- The sociotechnical nature of data sharing and linkage
- Keeping your statistics (and your garden) sustainable
- Guest Blog: The public good of statistics – narratives from around the world
- Guest Blog: Mental health data quality
- You’re planning to do what? Statistics, resource constraints and user engagement
- Guest Blog: Producing, reviewing, and always evolving: UKHSA statistics
- The success and potential evolution of the 5 Safes model of data access
- Transparency: bringing the inside out
- Guest Blog: How do we use statistics in everyday life?
- A statistical jigsaw: piecing together UK data comparability
- Our current position on regulating, responding to and using AI
- What does it mean to be an accredited official statistic?