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RSS Excellence awards: nominations now open

Entries may now be made to the Society’s awards for statistical excellence, both in the fields of journalism and in official statistics. The RSS Statistical Excellence in Official Statistics ...

Statistics Authority urges Cameron to review pre-release access to official statistics

Andrew Dilnot, the chair of the UK Statistics Authority,  has urged the government to reconsider current arrangements for pre-release access to official statistics by politicians and senior ...

Winners of Excellence in Official Statistics award announced

Last summer’s riots and the re-definition of fuel poverty are the topics covered by the winners of this year’s RSS Statistical Excellence in Official Statistics award. Two winners were ...

Are you happy? – RSS NEWS reader letter

Not really. At least, I am not happy with the strategy adopted by the ONS to measure national well-being, as outlined by Paul Allin in the February issue of RSS NEWS. Paul says that ‘it ...

CLG consultation

The Department for Communities and Local Government is consulting on proposed changes to three areas of its statistics: land use change statistics; data collection options to ensure that ...

ONS well-being data

ONS published its first estimates of subjective well-being in February, with results from four questions asked of 80,000 adults during April-September 2011 across the UK. Of the four UK countries, ...

Data for Parliamentary constituency areas

The UK Statistics Authority published a monitoring brief in March on statistics for parliamentary constituencies. This examines current practice across departments in providing data for constituency ...

Open data

From March 2012, the Land Registry is set to make monthly data available for the price paid for all residential property sales in England and Wales at address level. This will be downloadable ...