A seminar discussing the issues raised by Professor Lievesley’s review.
The …
As a special contribution to the review of UKSA Better Statistics are planning a one-day seminar on the 19th September. We are pleased to announce that Sir Robert Chote and Sir Vince Cable have agreed to serve on the …
Jill Leyland provides a useful timeline of the events relating to the decision to remove the RPI as a National Statistic
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The latest Data from the Opinium Inflation Research on behalf of Better Statistics shows that only a third of UK citizens are aware that the ONS is responsible for measuring inflation and even fewer know that the official statistic is …
On 4th April the Office for National Statistics published detailed information from the Census on sexual orientation and gender . Unfortunately, it is evident that the question used was misunderstood by many persons for whom English may not be …
FOREWORD
In 2015, at the request of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), we published a paper “Towards a Household Inflation Index”. The proposed index was intended as a measure of inflation “as perceived and …
There has been extensive news coverage of the difficulties experienced by the National Health Service, with some commentators linking the difficulties to an unusual increase in deaths. For example the organisation Pulse headlined on 6th January …
The post of National Statistician has been announced on the civil service website, with applications required before midnight on 5th December. Sir Ian Diamond’s existing appointment has been further extended to run until the end of March 2023 and …