Task type: Publishing statistics

Understanding the difference between official statistics and published management information

Guidance from the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) that sets out the essential characteristics of official statistics and published management information.

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Accessibility legislation: what you need to know

This short piece of guidance sets out the most important things you need to know about the UK's accessibility legislation.

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Data visualisation: charts

Guidance on how to create and publish accessible charts.

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Data visualisation: colours

Guidance on using colours in data visualisations.

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Releasing statistics in spreadsheets

Guidance providing advice on releasing statistics in spreadsheets. It considers accessibility, machine readability and general usability.

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Accessible charts: a checklist of the basics

This checklist is designed to help you implement our data visualisation charts guidance and e-learning.

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Resources to use with our releasing statistics in spreadsheets guidance

These resources are to be used alongside our 'releasing statistics in spreadsheets' guidance.

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Using symbols and shorthand

Guidance providing a consistent shorthand to be used in statistical and analytical publications produced by the public sector.

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Reporting concerns under the Code of Practice for Statistics

This guidance sets out how producers of official statistics should raise concerns about compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics.

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Ethnicity harmonised standard

This guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about ethnicity to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.

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