Statistics
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Tell us what you think: review of the Scottish Care Experience Survey Programme
12th March 2024 by Office of the Chief Statistician
We are reviewing the Scottish Care Experience Survey Programme. The programme includes a suite of national surveys which provide local and national information on the quality of health and care services from the perspectives of the people using them. The programme currently consists of four surveys: The Health & Care Experience Survey (HACE) covers GP...
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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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Our plans for small area statistics – consulting on Data Zones and Intermediate Zones
26th January 2024 by Lee Bunce
The publication of statistics at a local level is important so that citizens and policy makers can make better informed decisions about their local communities. To support the production of small area statistics it is vital that we have solid statistical foundations in place. In Scotland, the statistical building blocks we use are Data Zones...
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New publication: Time Use in Scotland 2023 – analysis by sex
8th November 2023 by maisybest
Last week, the Scottish Government’s Equality Analysis team were pleased to publish Time use in Scotland 2023 – analysis by sex. In this blog we’d like to tell you about the publication and some of the key findings. The Online Time Use Survey (OTUS) is a UK-wide survey commissioned by ONS and gathered by NatCen Social...
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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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