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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This guidance answers questions you may have about publishing official statistics in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
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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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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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This guidance provides advice on when to introduce the experimental statistics label, how to communicate what it means and how to remove it.
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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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Introduction Income and earnings are topics of great importance to people across the country. Earnings refers to money earned from employment, whereas income is total money received, including from earnings,…
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The following guidance sets out how to measure disability. This is based on the criteria used by different organisations or legislation to classify a person as disabled. These are for use in social surveys and administrative sources. They have been developed through consultation and workshops with key stakeholders including the devolved administrations.
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The following guidance sets out how to measure disability. This is based on the criteria used by different organisations or legislation to classify a person as disabled. These are for use in social surveys and administrative sources. They have been developed through consultation and workshops with key stakeholders including the devolved administrations.
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Harmonisation is about making statistics and data more comparable, consistent and coherent and there are many aspects to this. This strategy covers the harmonisation of question wording used in questionnaires, interviews and administrative data collection, and the coherence of official statistics outputs.
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