The UK Statistics Authority, which was established on commencement of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, has a statutory duty to prepare, adopt and publish a Code of Practice for Statistics that sets out the professional standards which official statistics are expected to meet.
The Authority's Code has been published on their own website.
The Authority also has a statutory duty to assess - for compliance with this Code - all official statistics designated as National Statistics under the previous non-statutory system, and all new candidates for Code-compliant status as a preliminary to deciding whether to give them formal accreditation as National Statistics.
The Code of Practice for Official Statistics has replaced the previous National Statistics Code of Practice and its 12 supporting Protocols.
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UK Statistics Authority Code of Practice
UK Statistics Code of Practice consultation
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Archive: National Statistics Code of Practice
Previous Code has been replaced by the UK Statistics Authority's Code of Practice
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Statement of Administrative Sources
The Statement of Administrative Sources used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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Statement of Compliance
ONS's operational arrangements for giving eligible persons pre-release access to its official statistics
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The Statistics Act
Overview of the statistics act and its relation to the statistics board
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Pre-release access
Information on how ONS publishes pre-release access lists
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ONS complaints policy
Details of ONS's complaints policy and complaints form
