UK Statistics Authority: guide to the statistical system, rules and governance

The Scottish Government has flatly rejected any change in pre-release access to statistics, describing the arguments of the UK Statistics Authority in favour of such a change as specious.

When does management information become official statistics?

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

Two Liberal Democrat MPs have put down an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons welcoming Making Sense of Statistics, the guide published by Straight Statistics and Sense about Scienc

Straight Statistics collaborated with Sense about Science to produce a simple guide to numerical and statistical traps, Making Sense of Statistics.

How many people are employed in the public sector?

The bigger a study, the better? That’s an assumption often made. But even studies that knock us out by their sheer size may be wrong.

Rearrange the following into a common phrase or saying: horse, stable door, close, bolted.

This week farmers in the UK and Ireland are labouring to complete an agricultural census for the European Union.