Economy

The National Statistics Quality Review Programme has been introduced to help ensure that National Statistics and other official statistical outputs are fit for purpose and that there is a process to support the continuing improvement in the quality and value of these outputs. It is a key component for quality assuring National Statistics as set out in the Government White Paper "Building Trust in Statistics"....more...

Links to the published Quality Review Reports for this theme will be added to this page as the reviews are completed. The National Statistician's response and any departmental plans so far reported for the implementation of recommendations will also be placed here.

NSQR Series Report No.37 - Review of Balance of Payments and Trade Statistics
Released 7 September 2004 - Published by Office for National Statistics

• Letter from the Divisional Director - ONS (20Kb doc)
• Response from the National Statistician (22Kb pdf)



• Report (100Kb doc)
• Annexes 1-2-3 (89Kb doc)     Annex 4 (785Kb doc)
• Implementation Plan (66Kb doc)



• Project Initiation Document (178Kb doc)
• Data Quality Assesment Framework (178Kb doc)

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NSQR Series Report No. 13: Review of Government Accounts and Indicators
Released 2 October 2002 - Published by Office for National Statistics

• Letter from the Director of National Expenditure and Income Division to the National Statistician (51Kb pdf)
• Response from the National Statistician to the Director of National Expenditure and Income Division (35Kb pdf)
• Report (417Kb doc)
• Q&A Brief (29Kb doc)
• Implementation Plan (31Kb doc)

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NSQR Series Report No.1 - Review of Short-Term Output Indicators

• Comment by the Director of Economic Statistics, ONS. (download 53Kb pdf)
• The Full Report (1.18 MB pdf)

  The report is also available for download in five sections:
  

  Contents and Summary (148 KB)
  

  Tasks 1, 2 and 3 (292 KB)
  

  Tasks 4, 5 and 6 (272 KB)
  

  Tasks 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (276 KB)
  

  Annexes (184 KB)

• Implementation Plan (download 336Kb pdf) (released 12/10/01)
  

• 2002 progress report (737Kb pdf) (released 30/10/02)

Review of Regional Accounts - Project Initiation Document (PID)

The main aims of this review are to:

• identify the main users and uses of the Regional Accounts;
• establish user requirements with regard to the relevance, accuracy, timeliness, punctuality, accessibility, clarity, comparability, coherence and completeness of the outputs;
• assess how well the Regional Accounts are meeting the above quality requirements;
• identify areas that need improvement and assess which should take highest priority;
• make recommendations for future work on the Regional Accounts, and if appropriate, options for how to better meet user requirements.

Please note that the consultation period for this review (PID) has ended.

Project Initiation Document (PID) (153Kb pdf) (Revised version updated as at 5 July 2002)

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This page last revised: Friday, 18 February 2005