Posts by: Charlie King
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
Awareness of inflation amongst the general public
Better Statistics CIC are grateful to Opinium Research for their support by conducting a short survey on awareness of inflation amongst the general public.
Following from the increase in inflation in the official April figure we wished to test the …
Mental Well-being
The recent blog “Are we facing a mental health pandemic?” by Tim Vizard and Theo Joloza which can be found here, is very important in emphasising the value of the ONS’s survey research program as a source for more …
National Statistician’s response
We are pleased to publish the recent correspondence between Tony Dent of Better Statistics CIC and the National Statistician on the GSS User Engagement Strategy, as launched in February. As can be seen here, the final letter in …
Well-being – Comparing Economic Variables with Survey Data
Prepared by Aiysha Mirza, CMR Group
Introduction
As part of a project to compare measures of personal well-being and economic data, we are looking to test the validity/relevance of the current topics of questioning and how extensive the current …
Commentary on “A Response to the Consultation on the Reform to Retail Prices Index (RPI) Methodology”
Summary:
On the 18th July 2019, Sir Bernard Jenkins reported to the House of Commons the findings of the then recent PACAC inquiry saying “In January 2019, the Economic Affairs Committee of the other place reported that by failing …
The Campaign for Better Statistics response to the UK National Data Strategy (NDS) consultation
The Campaign has prepared a response to the consultation requested by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. This consultation on the framework National Data Strategy (NDS), was launched during London Tech Week 2020 to explore whether or not …
Our campaign comments on the UKSA decision to replace the Retail Price Index with the CPIH
On Wednesday, whilst the chancellor was providing his statement on the 2020 spending review, the UK Statistical Authority released the response to the consultation on their proposals to replace the Retail Price Index with the CPIH. Unsurprisingly, they have ignored …
Reflections on UK official Statistics
Professor Paul Allin of the Statistics Users Forum has opened an important debate in respect of the performance of the Government Statistics service with his reflections, as recently published on the Statistics Users Network and can be downloaded here. …
Phyllis Macfarlane comments on RPI methodology
I first became interested in Inflation measurement some years ago when GFK bid (unsuccessfully!) for the data collection work that inputs into the UK RPI.
At that time the prices for each of the products and services in the basket …