Statistics
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Join the new ScotStat Board – help improve Official Statistics in Scotland
2nd February 2024 by Ally McAlpine
Update: the deadline for applications has now been extended to 4th March 2024. Building trust in our statistics is fundamental to the work of statisticians, as mentioned in my previous blog. Central to building trust is regularly engaging with our users. In this blog I am offering the opportunity for people who have a keen...
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Working as a government statistician – Emma Sigfridsson
8th November 2023 by Office of the Chief Statistician
By Emma Sigfridsson, Senior Assistant Statistician in Homelessness Statistics and Analysis The Scottish Government has launched an external recruitment campaign for B1 and B2 Assistant Statisticians. Applications close on 13 November 2023. You might be wondering what statisticians do on a day-to-day basis. This blog series offers some insight into the diversity of roles available...
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Working as a government statistician – Ross Waddell
2nd November 2023 by Office of the Chief Statistician
By Ross Waddell, Assistant Statistician in Education Analytical Services The Scottish Government has launched an external recruitment campaign for B1 and B2 Assistant Statisticians. Applications close on 13 November 2023. An information session to find out more about the application and assessment process will be held on Monday 6 November 2023 from 12:30 to 14:00. You might be wondering what statisticians...
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Working as a government statistician – Eleanor Swift
31st October 2023 by Office of the Chief Statistician
By Eleanor Swift, Assistant Statistician in Corporate Analytical Services The Scottish Government has launched an external recruitment campaign for B1 and B2 Assistant Statisticians. Applications close on 13 November 2023. An information session to find out more about the application and assessment process will be held on Monday 6 November 2023 from 12:30 to 14:00....
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Working as a government statistician in the COVID-19 pandemic – Anouska Pandya
27th October 2023 by Lee Bunce
by Anouska Pandya, Assistant Statistician in Health and Social Care Analysis The Scottish Government has launched an external recruitment campaign for B1 and B2 Assistant Statisticians. Applications close on 13 November 2023. An information session to find out more about the application and assessment process will be held on Monday 6 November 2023 from 12:30...
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One year in – Census and the Future
3rd September 2023 by Ally McAlpine
Keen readers of this blog will know, I took up the post as Interim Chief Statistician in April 2022. A year on, I was pleased to accept the post permanently. In this blog I will share my experiences from the past year and few months. Reading Time: 5 minutes Passion about Statistics to Improve Decision...
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Reproducible Analytical Pipelines: How we saved 3 analysts 6 weeks of copying and pasting
24th July 2023 by Lee Bunce
This blog post is by Alice Byers, Reproducible Analytical Pipeline Developer in Scottish Government. Like most analysts, I’ve spent a lot of time copying and pasting from spreadsheets, analysing data in laborious and manual ways with lots of potential for human error. This is why RAPs – Reproducible Analytical Pipelines – grabbed my attention when...
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Working as a government statistician – Maike Waldmann
8th March 2023 by Helen Davidson
This article has been produced as part of a blog series to spotlight the work of analysts and statisticians across government. In this blog, hear from Maike Waldmann about her work as part of the Poverty and Deprivation Statistics Team. The poverty and deprivation statistics team within the Scottish Government is a team of two,...
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Working as a government statistician – Giuliana Giuliani
8th March 2023 by Helen Davidson
This article has been produced as part of a blog series to spotlight the work of analysts and statisticians across government. In this blog, hear from Giuliana Giuliani about her work on the Scottish Cancer Patient Experience survey. I am an Assistant Statistician in the Health and Social Care division. Since day one, I have...
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Working as a government statistician – Esther Roughsedge
8th March 2023 by Helen Davidson
This article has been produced as part of a blog series to spotlight the work of analysts and statisticians across government. In this first blog, hear from Esther Roughsedge about her work in National Records of Scotland on the BBC Scotland Documentary ‘Who lives in Scotland?’ I head the Population and Migration Statistics team at...
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