FSUG works for the interests of users of financial and macro-economic statistics. Affiliated to the Royal Statistical Society, FSUG is represented on the RSS Statistics Users' Forum (SUF), the umbrella body representing all users' interests to producers of National Statistics and has a dialogue with the Statistics Commission. Through seminars, roundtables and discussion groups, the group improves members' understanding of compilation methodologies, obtains practitioner views on existing statistics or potential improvements, provides a topical discussion forum for compilers and users, and promotes expertise amongst users.
Free membership is open to any user of financial statistics, and an executive committee, meeting 4 times a year, to which the ONS and BoE are observers, is elected annually. Events are usually held in Central London locations.
Terms of Reference
For further information on FSUG, to be added to our membership list, or to suggest topics for consideration, please e-mail the secretary, Anna Filipposian, at anna@amflink1.plus.com
News
In common with other user groups, FSUG aims to identify priority areas of concern to users, to feed into the SUF debate on user needs. The RSS will be providing support for affiliated user groups and encouraging contributions from its membership.
Future meetings
| tba | Measuring e-commerce |
| tba | Cost-benefit analysis of banking statistics |
| 2005 November | Impact of IFRS |
| 2005 September | Measuring financial services |
Previous meetings and links to summary reports
Terms of Reference
| STATUS | A user group affiliated to the Statistics User Forum of Royal Statistical Society. |
| PURPOSES | To represent the interests of users of financial and macro-economic statistics through involvement in the Statistics Users Forum and in direct dialogue with the Office for National Statistics, the Bank of England or other appropriate organisations.
To develop and maintain liaison between users and producers of financial and macro-economic statistics.
To provide the ONS and the BoE with users' views on existing statistics or improvements subject to cost of providing the information.
To identify gaps in financial statistics and who is best placed to meet them.
To improve users' understanding of the data produced by the ONS, the BoE and others, to promote exchange of information and expertise between users.
| ACTIVITIES | Regular meetings, seminars, or discussion groups for members to discuss matters of interest.
Representation on the Statistics Users' Forum
Formal and informal dialogue with the Office for National Statistics and Bank of England on matters of concern to users.
| EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE | Up to 15 members to be elected by members, to act as an executive committee to plan activities of the group in combination with other related user groups and the Statistics Users' Council.
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This page last revised: Thursday, 9 June 2005
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