How to get the most out of Slack
Guidance
This guidance explains what Slack is and what it can be used for. It also give tips for using Slack more efficiently.
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Assistance for Survey Control Liaison Officers (SCLOs)
Guidance
This guidance provides information that Survey Control Liaison Officers might find useful.
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Guidance
This guidance sets out the process for external recruitment, internal Civil Service recruitment and badging for Statistical Officers, Higher Statistical Officers and Senior Statistical Officers in the Statistics Profession.
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Harmonisation guidance and principles
This report by the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation Team explores the different definitions of affordable housing and associated terminology used in the UK.
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Guidance
This guidance is for producers of statistical outputs across government who need to decide whether to label data as official statistics.
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Guidance
This guidance deals with handling data to produce and publish official statistics. It also deals with how to make data available to external users in ways that are transparent and accountable.
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Guidance
This guidance answers questions you may have about publishing official statistics in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
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Guidance
This guidance sets out the Office for Statistics Regulation’s expectations regarding the production and handling of experimental statistics in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
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Guidance
Foreword The responsibility for producing high quality statistics lies with everyone working in the statistical system. Understanding quality, and how it feeds through into the use of our numbers, is…
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Harmonisation guidance and principles
This page provides information on work underway across the Government Statistical Service to harmonise measures of sex and gender in data collection across government. The update below focuses on the…
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