Statistics
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ScotCen appointed to review Pre-release Access to Official Statistics in Scotland
18th February 2025 by Office of the Chief Statistician
The Office of the Chief Statistician has appointed The Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) to independently review current processes around pre-release access to Official Statistics in Scotland. Pre-release access is the practice of providing access to official statistics in their final form prior to publication. Pre-release access is restricted to a limited number of...
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Statement from the Chief Statistician on the Annual Population Survey
14th November 2024 by Office of the Chief Statistician
Challenges in Gathering Scotland’s Data: How Response Rates Are Impacting the Annual Population Survey In recent years we have seen difficulties in getting people to respond to surveys and other data collections. These problems are affecting most surveys across the UK. In this blog I will describe the problems with the Annual Population Survey and...
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Working with producers of statistics
19th September 2024 by Office of the Chief Statistician
This is the second of two blogs published by the Office of the Chief Statistician in Scottish Government in response to recommendations of the Independent Review of the UK Statistics Authority by Professor Denise Lievesley. Through the blogs we touch on the purpose of Government statistics which are fundamental to open and transparent government and...
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Serving the needs of users of statistics
12th September 2024 by Office of the Chief Statistician
This is the first of two blogs published by the Office of the Chief Statistician in Scottish Government in response to recommendations of the Independent Review of the UK Statistics Authority by Professor Denise Lievesley. Through the blogs we touch on the purpose of Government statistics which are fundamental to open and transparent government and...
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Council Tax Comparisons between Scotland and England – Coherence Blog
11th July 2024 by lisaclark
This blog represents part of our themed month to support coherence in statistics. Often, we hear statisticians refer to coherence in the context of the ability to compare statistics across different parts of the UK, or other geographies. Jon Hunter in Scottish Government’s Local Government Analytical Unit describes his recent work to improve contextual information...
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Resetting the focus: how we’re making statistics in Scotland better
20th May 2024 by paulmatthews
by Paul Matthews, Senior Statistician in the Office of the Chief Statistician. I used to play tennis a bit when I was younger. Definitely not at a Murray level (!), but I found it fun. I wasn’t the sporty type, so it was rare for me to find something I enjoyed. Back then it was...
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