When does management information become official statistics?

A brief period in which British family doctors were offered a financial inducement to treat diabetic patients more intensively could be coming to an end.
 

The Welsh Language Board tirelessly promotes the use of Welsh, in many ingenious ways.

A formal complaint has been made to The Lancet’s Ombudsman over a paper on the risks of Caesareans that was the subject of a critical analysis by Straight Statistics.

How many deaths occurred in England and Wales last week? We don’t know the answer, and that’s understandable.

An insidious abuse of statistics is spurious accuracy.

The leaked reports about the war in Afghanistan that have emerged this week show that NATO forces have killed more civilians than previously acknowledged.

The Scottish Government is currently considering tenders for a seven-year contract to transport prisoners around Scotland.
 

Earlier this month, lots of media attention was paid to a new analysis concluding that giving birth at home tripled the chances of the baby dying.
 

In line with a promise made before the election, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchquer, made available on 4 June the Treasury’s COINS database.