Government Statistical Service

The Government Statistical Service (GSS) is the community for all UK civil servants that collect, analyse, produce and communicate statistics.

As a community, we are responsible for ensuring that statistics effectively inform decision-makers and the public. We innovate by investigating new data sources, methodologies and processes to improve the quality of analysis and statistics.

The Government Statistician Group (GSG) makes up a large part of the GSS, as the body of statisticians and data scientists working in government who have passed the GSG badging exercise. However, many of our analysts have been badged through other professions.

These webpages help to explain the GSS, how work across government interacts with the wider community, and the support and learning that is available to members.