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Probe launched into flawed data at UK statistics agency

Summary by Financial Times
Government-backed investigation will examine efficacy and capability at the ONS amid concerns over reliability of official figures

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Investigation launched into UK's Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics is under review after criticism about the reliability of its data.

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UK Launches Investigation Into Problems at Statistics Office

A probe into the “culture, structure and leadership” at the Office for National Statistics has been launched by the government amid growing concerns over the quality of its data.

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Probe launched into flawed data at UK statistics agency

Government-backed investigation will examine efficacy and capability at the ONS amid concerns over reliability of official figures

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UK economic forecasts called into question as ONS data reliability falters – Your Capital Minds

The credibility of UK economic data has been thrown into doubt after senior officials at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the Bank of England raised serious concerns about the reliability of statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Speaking to MPs on the Treasury select committee, Richard Hughes, chairman of the OBR, warned that “trying to get a clear read” on the UK economy from current ONS data is “very di…

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Probe launched into ONS governance and data quality

The government has launched an independent investigation into the UK’s beleaguered statistics watchdog to ascertain how its official data and surveys have become so unreliable. The remit of the probe – commissioned by the Cabinet Office and UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) – will span the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) culture, leadership and structure, and will be led by ex-senior mandarin Sir Robert Devereux. Devereux was permanent secret…

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Economic Laws, Statistics, and the Distribution of Physicians

It is not many years since all statistical investigations were to be distrusted because biometry was as yet no science at all. It was customary to present a few figures and to draw from them extensive and unusual interpretations without taking into account numerous conditions that bore on possible interpretations. The modern biometrician realizes that allowances must be made for all sorts of factors and possible errors in the accumulation of med…

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