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I n brief Consultation on ONS’s statistics work programme 2008–2012: second phase
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he Office for National Statistics (ONS) has launched the second phase of a consultation on statistical priorities. The five-year funding settlement was agreed in April 2007 as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review and covers the period from 2007/08 to 2011/12. Phase one of the consultation took place during June and July 2007 and resulted in 90 responses being received from organisations and individuals. Details of the responses received for those who granted permission to publish their responses can be found at the address given below. Within the link below, Annex C describes the current range of outputs for each National Statistics theme, the developments that are already planned, the responses to phase one consultation and ONS proposals for additional investment. Views are invited from all ONS’s stakeholders and those with an interest in its business, using the response template at Annex A. This asks just four questions and seeks replies by 30 November. Responses will be considered by ONS and feed into its planning process. The final statistical work programme will be published in the new year. The work programme and the responses to the consultation will inform the thinking as the new Statistics Board starts to consider statistical priorities for the long term.
More information
www.statistics.gov.uk/about/consultations/ ons-stat-work-prog-phase2.asp
Contact
Dave Sharp 01633 812517 [email protected]
Improving price statistics – the Ottawa Group
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he Ottawa Group was set up by the UN Statistical Commission as a forum for specialist academics and practitioners to share their experiences and discuss research on crucial problems of measuring price change. The focus has been
on applied research particularly, though not exclusively, in the area of Consumer Price Indices (CPI). Its first meeting was in October 1994 in Ottawa. The first paper was presented by Marta Haworth of the UK’s Central Statistical Office (now Office for National Statistics (ONS)) on ‘Sampling and Data Capture Issues in CPI Construction’. It was fitting that the tenth meeting of the Group, in October this year, returned to Ottawa, 13 years and 200 papers later. Over the years the Ottawa Group has contributed to international best practices in many key areas of CPI methodology and compilation, perhaps most significantly in relation to dealing with quality change and bias. Perhaps one of the group’s biggest specific achievements with long lasting consequences has been the active participation of its members in production of the ILO Manual on Consumer Price Indices. David Fenwick, then Director of Consumer Price Indices at ONS, chaired the technical expert group who were given the task of drafting the manual and most of the chapter authors were members of the Ottawa Group. ONS continues to be actively involved in the Ottawa Group and at the most recent meeting presented a paper on the factors that influence people’s perceptions and experie
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