The following seven publications are available online

• Review on recommendations for the AEI
• Reducing the Stats Burden on Business
• Quality work and conflicting quality objectives
• Harmonised Concepts and Questions
• Office for National Statistics - Procedures for Risk Management
• National Statistics - Principles of Good Data Management

Key publications relating methods and quality include

Small Area Estimation Project Report
Small area estimation of variables studied in social surveys is a growing need for government,principally for the establishment of better directed resource allocation for problems of bad health,bad housing conditions,unemployment and low pay.This interest is for areas of varying sizes but often at the level of political ward - roughly 2,000 households.The variable can be either continuous (e.g.household income) in which case interest is in the area mean or discrete (e.g.suffering from long term limiting illness or not)in which case interest is in the area proportion.

• Small Area Estimation Project Report

Guidelines for Measuring Statistical Quality
The Government Statistical Service (GSS) has long recognised the need to provide users with information about the quality of statistics, and about analytical techniques used to derive the figures. The Guidelines for Measuring Statistical Quality (Version 3) provide a checklist of quality measures and indicators for use when measuring and reporting on the quality of statistical outputs. They represent best practice for measuring quality throughout the statistical production process.
This version of the guidelines replaces Version 2.0 (June 2005) and features a new chapter of quality measures and indicators for administrative data.

Guidelines for Measuring Statistical Quality v3.0

GSS Methodology Series
The aim of this series is to publish monographs with a substantial methodological interest written by people across the GSS. A wide range of methodological issues are covered including sample survey design and estimation, time series analysis and the compilation of National Accounts. The reports examine the methodological issues affecting the quality of the data provided and evaluate alternative methodologies. The series currently consists of the following reports:

• NSMS01: Software to weight and gross survey data, Dave Elliot.
• NSMS02: Report of Task Force on Seasonal Adjustment
• NSMS03: Report of the Task Force on Imputation
• NSMS04: Report of the Task Force on Disclosure
• NSMS05: Gross Domestic Product: Output methodological guide, Peter Sharp
• NSMS06: Interpolating annual data to monthly or quarterly data, Michael Baxter
• NSMS07: Sample design options for an integrated household survey, Dave Elliot and Jeremy Barton
• NSMS08: Evaluating non-response on household surveys, Kate Foster
• NSMS09: Reducing statistical burdens on business, Andrew Machin
• NSMS10: Statistics on Trade in Goods, David Ruffles
• NSMS11: The 1997 UK pilot of the Eurostat Time Use Survey, Patrick Sturgis and Peter Lynn
• NSMS12: Monthly statistics on Public Sector Finances, Jeff Golland, David Savage, Tim Pike and Stephen Knight
• NSMS13: A review of sample attrition and representativeness in three longitudinal surveys, Gad Nathan
• NSMS14: Measuring and Improving Data Quality, Vera Ruddock
• NSMS15: Gross Domestic Product: Output Approach, Peter Sharp
• NSMS16: Report of the Task Force on Weighting and Estimation, Dave Elliot
• NSMS17: Methodological Issues in the Production and Analysis of Longitudinal Data from the Labour Force Survey, P S Clarke and P F Tate
• NSMS18: Comparisons of income data between the Family Expenditure Survey and the Family Resources Survey, Margaret Frosztega and the Households Below Average Income team
• NSMS19: European Community Household Panel: Robustness Assessment Report for United Kingdom Income Data, Waves 1 and 2
• NSMS20: Producer price indices: Principles and procedures, Ian Richardson
• NSMS21: Variance estimation for labour force survey estimates of level and change
• NSMS22: Longitudinal data for policy analysis
• NSMS23: Report on GSS survey activity in 1997
• NSMS24: Obtaining information about drinking through surveys of the general population
• NSMS25: Methods for automatic record matching and linking in their use in National Statistics
• NSMS26: Designing surveys using variances calculated from Census data
• NSMS27: Report on GSS survey activity in 1998
• NSMS28: Evaluation and criteria for statistical editing and imputation
• NSMS29: Report on GSS survey activity in 1999
• NSMS30: The value and feasibility of a national survey of drug use among adults in the UK
• NSMS31: Report on GSS survey activity in 2000
• NSMS32: Gross domestic product: output approach (Gross Value added) - Revised
• NSMS33: Life expectancy at birth: methodological options for small populations.
• NSMS34: Making a population estimate in England and Wales
• NSMS35: Smoothing of Standardised Mortality Ratios: A preliminary investigation
• NSMS36: Statistics on Trade in Goods - Revised
• NSMS37: Estimating alcohol consumption from survey data: updated method of converting volumes to units

This page last updated: Thursday, 13 December 2007