Guidance and research

This directory contains resources, reference information and research articles that can help you with all aspects of your analytical work.

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Tips for urgent quality assurance of ad-hoc statistical analysis

Guidance

This page is currently under review and awaiting updates. This guidance sits alongside “Tips for urgent quality assurance of data”. This guidance focuses on the analysis, that guidance looks at the data used in the analysis.

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Anonymisation and data confidentiality

Guidance

This guidance provides advice for maintaining privacy and data confidentiality in government statistics.

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How to publish something on the Analysis Function (AF) website

Guidance

Guidance for how to request to publish content on the Analysis Function website.

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Adopting Success Profiles across the Government Statistical Service

Guidance

This guidance sets out the process for external recruitment, internal Civil Service recruitment and badging for Statistical Officers, Higher Statistical Officers and Senior Statistical Officers in the Statistics Profession.

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Affordable housing harmonisation guidance

Harmonisation standards and guidance

This report by the Government Statistical Service (GSS) Harmonisation Team explores the different definitions of affordable housing and associated terminology used in the UK.

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Labelling official statistics

Guidance

This guidance is to help producers of statistical outputs across government who need to decide whether to label data as official statistics.

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Building confidence in the handling and use of data

Guidance

This guidance deals with handling data to produce and publish official statistics. It also deals with how to make data available to external users in ways that are transparent and accountable.

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Publishing official statistics and accredited official statistics

Guidance

This guidance answers questions you may have about publishing official statistics in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.

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Official statistics in development

Guidance

This guidance sets out the Office for Statistics Regulation’s expectations regarding the production and handling of official statistics in development in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.

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Quality statistics in government

Guidance

This guidance supports statistics producers in meeting the quality requirements of the United Kingdom (UK) Code of Practice for Statistics and Eurostat’s European Statistics Code of Practice.

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