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.
Statistics Regulator Oliver Fox-Tatum explores what we mean by effective analytical leadership and how our TQV (Trustworthiness, Quality and Value) framework supports this. So… what do we mean by Analytical…
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…
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…
18 March 2022
Richard Laux, Deputy Director, Data and Analysis, at the Equality Hub writes a guest blog about improving reporting and reducing misuse of ethnicity statistics.
11 March 2022
Siobhan Tuohy-Smith writes on the importance of migration statistics when it comes to affecting real-world policy.
1 March 2022
Director General, Ed Humpherson explores his love of evaluation in our blog.
18 February 2022
Grace Pitkethly, Insight and Evaluation Manager at OSR explains how developing a more sophisticated use of evidence improves organisational insights.
11 February 2022
In our latest blog, OSR Regulator and former Police Information Analyst Ben Kendall Ward discusses how the Home Office’s National Data Quality Improvement Service (NDQIS) is improving the way police…
25 January 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust health and social care statistics into the headlines. Never has there been more scrutiny or spotlight on health statistics – they are widely quoted, in…
14 January 2022
‘The public good’ is a phrase which you might not have come across before. When I first joined the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) nearly two years ago, I had…
17 November 2021
It may be too early to talk about Christmas for some – not for me. I have decided on the design theme, got my advent calendar, am close to finalising the Christmas menu and have started ordering gifts. I am all over it! And…
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…