The guidance hub contains resources and reference information to help you with all aspects of your analytical work.
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The following guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about unpaid care to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across the Government Statistical Service (GSS).
Learn more on Unpaid care harmonised standardThis is the National Statistician's Quality Review on privacy and data confidentiality methods.
Learn more on Privacy and data confidentiality methods: a Data and Analysis Method Review (DAMR)This guidance provides advice on how to identify and engage with users.
Learn more on User engagement guidanceThis guidance provides advice on data linking - the process of joining datasets together so we can maximise the use of our data sources.
Learn more on Data linkageThis guidance outlines what you should do when making and implementing decisions about revising, replacing or ceasing to publish official statistics.
Learn more on Changing or ceasing to publish official statisticsThis guidance provides practical advice on how to communicate quality, uncertainty and change for different types of statistics and for a range of audiences.
Learn more on Communicating quality, uncertainty and changeThis guidance provides advice on using GDPR for statistical purposes.
Learn more on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and statisticsThis policy outlines the principles to follow when recruiting a new statistical Head of Profession.
Learn more on Recruiting a statistical Head of Profession (HoP)This policy provides guidance for producers of statistics on publishing official statistics on or around polling days.
Learn more on Publishing official statistics on polling daysThe Code of Practice for Statistics provides producers of official statistics with detailed practices they must commit to. It also provides producers of non-official statistics with a framework they can voluntarily comply with.
Learn more on Code of Practice for Statistics