Code of Practice for Statistics

Policy details

Metadata item	Details
Publication date:	22 February 2018
Author:	Office for Statistics Regulation
Approver:	UK Statistics Authority Board
Who this is for:	Producers of statistics
Contact:	regulation@statistics.gov.uk

Brief description:

The Code of Practice for Statistics provides producers of official statistics with detailed practices they must commit to.

It also provides producers of non-official statistics with a framework they can voluntarily comply with.

You can use an online version of the code or you can download a PDF version: Code of Practice for Statistics (pdf, 0.43MB).

This Code of Practice for Statistics replaces the Code of Practice for Official Statistics 1.0.

Review frequency:

The code will be reviewed and updated periodically.