Guidance hub

Open sourcing analytical code

This guidance is intended to help analysts evaluate how they could benefit from open sourcing their code. It will explain the risks and offer guidance about how to open source code safely.

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Questionnaire design guidance

This guidance covers the main considerations in question and questionnaire design and shares specific best practice on question design.

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Review of ethnicity harmonised standard: initial findings

The Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation team is based in the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The team supports harmonisation of data across the UK. This involves providing bespoke advice and harmonised standards…

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Quality of administrative data in statistics

A framework to help you assess the quality of administrative data for use in the production of statistics.

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Quality questions and red flags

The "Quality Questions and Red Flags" guidance is designed to give support and guidance to anyone working on statistical outputs and analysis across government.

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The Theory of Change Process – Guidance for Outcome Delivery Plans

This toolkit is designed to make designing, updating, and maintaining TOCs easier. It provides practical information to support the justification, design, application, communication, and review of TOCs. Many departments may have their own TOC tool to support users through the process.

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Review of gender identity data harmonised standard

A review of the current gender identity data harmonised standard.

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National Statistician’s guidance: management information and official statistics

This guidance provides advice on how government departments should treat management information to get maximum value from it while protecting public trust in official statistics.

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Qualifications harmonised standard

This guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about qualifications to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.

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Analysis Function Strategy

The Analysis Function Strategy sets out objectives for analysis in government over the next three years, and how the Analysis Function Central Team will work to achieve these aims.

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