Our aims

Our strategic aims are:
  • to provide authoritative, timely and accessible statistics and analysis that enable decision making across UK society, anticipate needs and support public accountability

  • to be a trusted and leading supplier of national government statistical expertise and surveys

  • to maintain a dynamic portfolio of statistical sources, which reflects changing data needs

  • to deliver the sources portfolio in a way that meets user expectations of quality within the available resources

  • to minimise the burden on respondents for all survey collections

  • our people, systems and processes are able to develop the current business and to respond rapidly to changing demands

  • to identify social and technological changes that will impact on what we do and how we do it