National Statistics

• About National Statistics
  
  
• Code of Practice for Official Statistics
  
  
• National Statistician's Guidance
  • Confidentiality of Official Statistics
  • Presentation and Publication of Official Statistics
  • Quality, Methods and Harmonisation
  • Use of Administrative or Management Information
    
    
• Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008
• Pre-Release Access Lists
  
  

Statistical Policies

The following documents are published in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics:

• Policy Statement on Revisions (pdf)
• Policy Statement on Confidentiality (pdf)
• Statement of Administrative Sources (pdf)
  Annex A - Systems used to feed National Statistics Publications (Excel)
• Policy on Meeting User Needs Through Engagement With Users (pdf)
• Statistical Quality Principles and Procedures (pdf)
• DCSF Statement of Compliance with the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008 (pdf)

Related Information

The Code of Practice for Official Statistics requires us to publish annually the cost of responding to our statistical surveys. The costs for 2008/09 were published in January 2010 in the Survey Control Unit of the Office of National Statistics' Annual Report on Government Statistical Surveys (England and Wales) 2008/09 which can be seen at http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_other/GSS-Report-Final.pdf.


Schedule of Publications

• National Statistics Release Calendar
• DCSF publishes a Schedule of Statistical Publications twice a year in March and September.