Code of Practice for Statistics

Purpose:

The Code provides producers of official statistics with the detailed practices they must commit to when producing and releasing official statistics.

The Code ensures that the statistics published by government serve the public. When producers of official statistics comply with the Code, it gives users of statistics and citizens confidence that published government statistics are of public value, are high quality and are produced by people and organisations that are worthy of trust.

An interactive version of the Code can be found here.

Target audience:

Producers of Official Statistics

Policy details

Metadata item	Details
Version number:	2.0
Mandatory or optional?	Mandatory
Effective date:	1 April 2015
Next recommended review date:	22 February 2018
Frequency of review:	It is anticipated that the guidance will be reviewed and updated periodically, in response to experiences of using it as well as to reflect possible updates to the Code itself.
Primary contact:	gss@statistics.gov.uk
Author:	Central Policy Secretariat
Commissioner:	UK Statistics Authority
Approver:	UK Statistics Authority
Date of approval:	1 June 2016

Version history

Version	Date	Title	Changes
	1 January 1970