Guidance
The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) have published guidance documents regarding COVID-19 and the regulation of statistics. This includes guidance for producers on issues to consider when making changes to…
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Introduction There are well established and documented Quality Assurance (QA) processes in place for GSS statistical outputs. However, often there is a need for additional ad-hoc analysis of GSS data, with…
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This guidance provides advice for maintaining privacy and data confidentiality in government statistics.
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Guidance on how to prepare and submit content to be published on the GSS website.
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This guidance sets out a common approach, based on recognised good practice, for releasing statistics in spreadsheets.
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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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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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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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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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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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