The following guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about loneliness to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.
Learn more on Loneliness harmonised standardThe Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) have published guidance documents regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) and the regulation of statistics.
Learn more on CCOVID-19 and the regulation of statisticsThis guidance is for producers of statistical outputs across government who need to decide whether to label data as official statistics. The guidance covers: the legal background points to consider…
Learn more on Labelling official statisticsThis guidance provides advice on when to introduce the official statistics in development label, how to communicate what it means, and how to remove it.
Learn more on Publishing official statistics in developmentThis standard combines the long-lasting health conditions and illness and activity restriction standards to measure disability for the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC).
Learn more on Measuring disability with European Union (EU) data harmonisation guidanceHarmonisation is about making statistics and data more comparable, consistent and coherent and there are many aspects to this. This strategy has been replaced by the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation workplan. The workplan was published in February 2022.
Learn more on GSS Harmonisation StrategyThe following guidance sets out how to accurately and consistently reference statistics geographically.
Learn more on Geography harmonisation guidanceThis harmonised standard sets out how to collect and report statistics about crime and fear of crime to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.
Learn more on Crime and fear of crime harmonised standardThe harmonised standard sets out how to collect and report statistics about economic activity status to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across the Government Statistical Service (GSS).
Learn more on Economic activity status, National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC) and employment related questions harmonised standardThis harmonised standard sets out how to collect and report statistics about employment variables to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across the Government Statistical Service (GSS).
Learn more on Number of employees and number of self-employed persons harmonised standard