Posts by: Charlie King
RSS public meeting
Royal Statistical Society will be holding a public meeting on Tuesday, 28th of June 2022, to discuss “Measuring Inflation as Households See It – Developing the Household Costs Index”. Click here to see the details.…
Inflation Rate Polling
Opinium Research have conducted a special project on behalf of Better Statistics for tomorrow’s Seminar on Inflation. Please download InflationTables for the results. A summary report will be available soon.…
Latest evidence on Coventry’s population estimates
Professor Champion of Newcastle University wonders if history is repeating itself in respect of Coventry’s statistics. The note below provides an update to Sir Andrew Watson’s speech at the launch event of last November.
Is history repeating itself in
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Merry Christmas
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The Better Statistics Advisory Group
The Better Statistics Advisory Group reflects a diversity of engagement within and across British commercial and business life. The group consists of six insightful professionals who value the quality of statistics and data and their potential impact on decision-making, and …
Is the UK Prosperity Index a Better Statistic?
Tony Dent and Phyllis Macfarlane provide a critique of the UK Prosperity index as published by the Legatum institute in May of this year.
Summary:
The UK prosperity Index was published earlier this year, based upon developments from …
The public launch of Better Statistics CIC
The public launch of Better Statistics CIC will be held on 17th November at the Methodist Hall, Westminster – full details will be published shortly.…
Posting on Stats User Network following from Paul Allin’s recent email to Richard Heys
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Inflation Report
Better Statistics advocates that public confidence in headline official statistics, such as the measure of inflation, should be monitored and targeted, with the targets influencing policy for both the collection and the presentation of those statistics to all elements of