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The Code of Practice for Statistics – The Office for Statistics Regulation Code of Practice for Statistics provides producers of official statistics with the detailed practices they must commit to when producing and releasing official statistics. The Code articulates a range of aspects of QA in the Quality pillar that producers should refer to when planning QA.

Quality Assurance of Administrative Data (QAAD) Toolkit (February 2019) – This toolkit from the Office for Statistics Regulation is intended to help statistical assessors review the areas of practice for the quality assurance arrangements of administrative data used to produce official statistics.

QAAD Questions – What do I need to ask? Use this guide from the Office for Statistics Regulation as a prompt to help you find out more about your administrative data sources and any associated quality issues.

The GSS ‘Quality statistics in government’ guidance – Produced by the GSS Best Practice and Impact Division (BPI), also supports statistical producers in meeting the quality requirements of the Code and provides helpful steps and techniques to consider in QA. This guide includes an example of a “data journey”.

GSS Guidance on quality – Here is a useful web page with links to a range of guidance on managing quality in statistics, including communicating quality, uncertainty and change.

GSS Quality Strategy – This strategy aims to improve statistical quality across the Government Statistical Service (GSS) to produce statistics that serve the public good.