Statistical Designation

You asked

Government departments often publish numerical information and analysis as administrative, management or research data, or otherwise use a designation that is not ‘official statistics’. The Authority has said that it "will vigorously challenge this through a public statement setting out our reasons. The Authority has challenged such instances on a number of occasions, and we have published guidance outlining the considerations that the Authority will place weight upon in deciding whether to propose to Ministers that a particular set of data produced by their department should, in future, be treated as official statistics. The Authority will continue to keep our guidance, and the criteria underpinning it, under review."

Please can you publish the guidance (or point to it on your website), publish any revisions made to it that appeared in the public domain, list all data that has now come under the Code, and say, in each case, if the decision to move on a data set was at the instigation of UKSA or an outsider communicating with UKSA?

We said

Please find the response in the attached document.