This is a blog by Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors.
This is a blog by Ed Humpherson, the Director General for Regulation, team members at the Office for Statistics Regulation and other ad-hoc guest authors.
27 July 2020
What does it mean to be in poverty? It’s a question that has been debated for a long time and is one of the reasons why measuring poverty is so…
23 July 2020
Whilst statistically those medically hardest hit by COVID-19 are the older generations, children and young people are having to come to terms with significant, immediate and possibly long term changes to their…
17 July 2020
A lot of business planning focuses on what’s in a strategy or plan. But it can be just as informative to describe what’s left out.
16 July 2020
How statisticians in the four nations are working together to improve the evidence base on deprivation
1 July 2020
I was recruited in October last year as the Head of the A and T work programme and since then a lot has been happening that I’d like to share.
26 June 2020
‘Don’t trust the data. If you’ve found something interesting, something has probably gone wrong!’
22 June 2020
In recent weeks, you may have spoken with friends and family who’ve seen their income and living standards impacted in some way by COVID-19. They may have been furloughed and…
18 June 2020
Note: this blog post was updated on 27 August 2020. Today we published the findings of our review of user engagement in the statistics producers that make up the Defra…
17 June 2020
Over the last few months while we’ve been social distancing, some of us have been self-isolating, and many of us have been and will continue to experience social connectivity in…
15 June 2020
Data has played an important role in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, driving newfound recognition of its value in understanding society and shaping policy. One of the features of the…