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.
My favourite number is 6. It was the number Roberto Carlos, my footballing idol, wore when he played for Brazil. As a kid I remember trying to recreate his infamous…
Over the past 18 months we’ve talked a lot about transparency. We’ve made public interventions such as our call for UK governments to provide more transparency around COVID data, and…
The Office for Statistics Regulation’s ‘Lessons Learned’ report argues that we should not be complacent: we need to press harder for more trustworthy, better quality, and higher value statistics.
12 November 2021
I felt immensely excited and proud to be one of the 1,000 volunteers helping at COP26 in my home city of Glasgow. Volunteers came from different corners of the globe,…
5 November 2021
We recently hosted a lively public event where we engaged with a varied audience answering questions about our work during the pandemic. We are delighted that the public is taking…
2 November 2021
There has been a lot of talk about a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) technical report. It includes information on COVID-19 case rates in England for vaccinated and unvaccinated groups…
22 September 2021
We are pleased to announce that a 12-week consultation will begin on 28 September 2021.
14 September 2021
In 2019, we started a systemic review of loneliness statistics to investigate the state of official statistics on loneliness in the UK.
9 September 2021
We can retain trust by actively looking for our mistakes, being open when we find them and by learning from them.
7 September 2021
This is a guest blog from Jonny Smyth, Head of Communications & Fundraising at Action Mental Health.
27 August 2021
Value for me is about why it all matters. Value means that statistics and data are useful, easy to access, remain relevant, and support understanding of important issues. These things…
30 July 2021
As part of our work on statistical leadership, we are hosting a series of guest blogs. This blog is from Stian Westlake, Chief Executive at the Royal Statistical Society.
23 July 2021
Quality simply means that statistics do what they set out to do and, crucially, that the best possible methods and sources are used to achieve that.