Guidance

Standards for official statistics published by the Department for Transport

This page features information on the standards that the department works to when publishing official statistics.

Documents

Details

Information on the Department for Transport (DfT) approach to the use of administrative sources for statistical purposes is set out at the link below. This includes details of individual administrative data sources used.

Statement on administrative sources

The ‘statement on spreadsheet accessibility’ document sets out the DfT statement on data tables. Statement on spreadsheet accessibility policy (HTML)

The ‘statement on pre-release access’ document sets out the DfT operational arrangements for giving ministers and their officials pre-release access to official statistics once they have attained their final form prior to publication. Statement on pre-release access (HTML)

The ‘statement on quality’ document sets out the DfT statement on quality policy. Statement on statistical quality (HTML)

The ‘statement on revision policy’ document sets out the DfT statement on revisions to our statistics. Statement on revision policy (HTML)

The ‘user service statement’ document sets out how DfT engages with users on our statistics. User service statement (HTML)

Published 10 November 2012
Last updated 14 January 2022 + show all updates
  1. Spreadsheet accessibility policy on data tables added.

  2. First published.