Our aims

Our strategic aims are:

to provide authoritative statistical evidence which impacts on policy decisions, anticipates needs and supports public accountability
to produce a coherent picture of society and the economy through focused, influential, timely and accessible analysis
to maintain a dynamic portfolio of statistical sources which reflects changing data needs
to deliver the sources portfolio in a way which meets user expectations of quality, within the available resources
to reduce compliance costs for all business survey collection
to be the preferred supplier of national government statistical surveys
to ensure our systems and people are ready to adapt rapidly to changing demands
to cut costs to reinvest in new demands, through efficiency, innovation, and methodological and technical improvements; and
to identify social and technological change that will impact on what we do and how we do it