Office for National Statistics logo The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the United Kingdom government executive agency charged with the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the United Kingdom at national and local levels. For historical reasons, it incorporates the General Register Office so is also responsible for the registration of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
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An Executive Agency is a British public institution that carries out some part of the executive functions of the United Kingdom government, Scottish Executive, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Executive. ...
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The General Register Office is that part of the government of England and Wales that deals with the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. ...
The ONS was formed on 1 April 1996 by the merger of the Central Statistical Office (CSO) and the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS).[1] April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Central Statistical Office was an UK organization which was merged with the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) in 1996 to form the Office for National Statistics (ONS) under a single director, who, from 2000 was also known as the National Statistician. ...
The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS), was a fore-runner and constituent, with the UK Central Statistical Office, of the Office for National Statistics, in which they combined in 1996 under a single director who, from 2000 was also known as the National Statistician. ...
Office Locations
 ONS London office, 1 Drummond Gate The ONS has a head office in the city of Newport, South Wales, and other offices in Pimlico in London, Titchfield in Hampshire and Southport[2]. In addition, there is the Family Records Centre in Islington[2], London, where censuses over 100 years old, electoral registers and indexes to the registers of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales may be consulted, and copies of census entries and certificates can be purchased. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 274 KB)ONS main building, Drummond Gate, London SW1. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 274 KB)ONS main building, Drummond Gate, London SW1. ...
Newport (Welsh: ) is the third-largest city within Wales (after Cardiff and Swansea), in the United Kingdom. ...
Pimlico is a small area of central London in the City of Westminster that is primarily residential and well known for its collection of small hotels. ...
This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...
South Street, looking towards the square Titchfield is a small village in southern Hampshire, by the River Meon. ...
Hampshire, sometimes historically Southamptonshire or Hamptonshire, (abbr. ...
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The Family Records Centre provides access to family history research sources for England and Wales. ...
Islington is an inner-city district in north London. ...
The London office was the head office until April 2006 when the corporate headquarters was moved to Newport[3] following the Lyons Review[4] on public sector relocation. Initially, the London office was in three buildings but due to reductions, most London staff are now in 1 Drummond Gate. The main London office is expected to close by April 2010 by which time the ONS policy is for its statistical activities to be concentrated in Titchfield and Newport [5]. The ONS asserts that recruitment and training of quality staff in South Wales, where data collection and analysis already takes place, will ensure that there is no risk to the quality of its services and that it is managing the risks associated with the changes which it is implementing in a planned and gradual way[6]. However the plan to discontinue all remaining statistical activity in London is proving controversial amid claims that the shift of functions from London and the impending closure of the London office could have serious implications for the future of certain particular sets of statistics. These include health statistics, National Accounts, Retail and Consumer Prices and Labour Market Statistics. These risks derive from the fact that few of the experienced staff working in these highly technical areas are expected to be willing to relocate to Newport, resulting in a substantial loss of expertise and a consequent threat to the continued quality of the statistics[7]. In a submission to the Parliamentary Treasury Sub Committee, the Bank of England too has expressed concern over the relocation of the ONS to Newport, saying, that "the relocation programme poses serious risks to the maintenance of the quality of macroeconomic data. If substantial numbers of ONS staff are unwilling to relocate, the loss of skilled individuals could have a severe impact on a range of statistics."[8][9]. The director of ONS has vigorously defended ONS implementation of government policy on civil service relocation and the decision to concentrate staff in the three locations outside London[10].
Heads of the Office: National Statistician Directors are de facto Permanent Secretaries but do not use that title. As the ONS incorporates the OPCS, the Director is also the Registrar General for England and Wales. In addition, he or she is ex officio the Head of the Government Statistical Service. The first Director of ONS was Professor Tim Holt. Subsequent Directors have had an additional title, the National Statistician. The second Director was Len Cook. He was succeeded by Karen Dunnell on 1 September 2005[11]. The Permanent Secretary, in most departments officially titled the Permanent Under-Secretary of State (although the full title is rarely used), is the most senior civil servant of a British Government ministry, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis. ...
The Registrar General is the Government official responsible for the registration of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales. ...
David (Tim) Holt CB (born 29 October 1943) is a British statistician who is Professor Emeritus of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton and president of the Royal Statistical Society (2005-). He was the last director of the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom and the first director...
National Statistician Directors of the UKs Office for National Statistics (ONS) also hold the title of National Statistician. ...
Len Cook was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1949. ...
Official photo from ONS Karen Hope Dunnell (born 16 June 1946) has been National Statistician, Registrar General and Director of the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom since 1 September 2005. ...
September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Independence Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer (now Prime Minister), announced on 28 November 2005[12] that the government intended to publish plans in early 2006 to legislate to render the ONS and the statistics it generates independent of government, on a model based on the acclaimed independence of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England[13]. Such independence was sought by the Royal Statistical Society[14] and the Statistics Commission[15]. It had become the policy of the Liberal Democrats[16] and Conservatives[17]. It was originally a 1997 Labour manifesto commitment[18]. For other people with the same name, see Gordon Brown (disambiguation). ...
The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK. Founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London, it became the Royal Statistical Society in 1887. ...
The Commissions logo The Statistics Commission is a non-departmental public body established in June 2000 by the UK Government to oversee the work of the Office for National Statistics1,2. ...
It is envisaged that the National Statistician should be directly accountable to Parliament through a more widely-constituted independent governing Statistics Board[19]. It has now been confirmed that the new ONS will be a non ministerial government department, so that the staff, including the Director, will remain as civil servants but without being under direct ministerial control[20]. National Statistician Directors of the UKs Office for National Statistics (ONS) also hold the title of National Statistician. ...
The National Statistician, Karen Dunnell, stated that legislation would help improve public trust in official statistics[21] although the ONS already acts independently according to its own published guidelines, the National Statistics Code of Practice[22], which sets out the key principles and standards that official statisticians, including those in other parts of the government statistical service, are expected to follow and uphold.
The details of the plans for independence are being considered in Parliament during the 2006/2007 session, via the Statistics and Registration Service Bill[23].
Work of the ONS Where data is broken down by geographical area, this is usually done by the areas defined in the ONS geographical coding system. The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ...
The principal areas of data collection are:
- Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry
- Commerce, Energy and Industry
- Crime and Justice
- Economy
- Education and Training
- Health and Care (Among numerous regular surveys, such as the General Household survey, the Labour Force Survey and the census that takes place every 10 years, ONS runs the England and Wales Longitudinal Survey, which monitors the health, address changes and fertility of a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales over time for statistical purposes).
- Labour Market
- Natural and Built Environment
- Population and Migration
- Public Sector and Other
- Social and Welfare
- Transport, Travel and Tourism
Statisticians are also employed by many other Government departments and agencies, and these statisticians often collect and publish data. For example, data on Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry come primarily from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Along with economic data on which the Treasury and Bank of England rely for decision-making, many of the statistics that receive widespread media attention are issued by the Home Office, the Department of Health & the Department for Education and Skills. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities. ...
Many governments, both national and more local, have a Department of Health. This article is about the British one. ...
The Department for Education and Skills is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. ...
The statistical work of the ONS has, since June 2000, been scrutinized by the Statistics Commission, an independent body with its own chairman and small staff. The Commissions logo The Statistics Commission is a non-departmental public body established in June 2000 by the UK Government to oversee the work of the Office for National Statistics1,2. ...
The Blue Book Annually, the Office for National Statistics publish their findings in the so-called Blue Book. It contains the estimates of the domestic and national product, income and expenditure of the United Kingdom, and is available as hardcopy, as well as a web version.[24]
Criticism of the ONS Len Cook, when National Statistician, described himself as the country's most abused civil servant[25]. Occasional errors and revisions accounts for some past criticism while the allocation of Private Finance Initiative expenditure (albeit following OECD and international statistical guidelines according to who carries the risk) has attracted political attention. Many of the most controversial topics for statistics issued by government do not come from ONS though they are expected to meet National Statistics standards. Crime statistics and other data (e.g. health and education) that could be deemed to assess the effectiveness of government policies often attract media scepticism. The compulsory nature of the census (unlike most other surveys by academics and market researchers) differentiates ONS from other data collectors (apart from the Inland Revenue). The Office for National Statistics won the 2004 Big Brother Award for the "Most Heinous Government Organisation" from the campaigning organisation Privacy International for its Citizen Information Project. The project is one of several that lead the Government's own Information Commissioner to warn that there is a danger of the country "sleepwalking" into a surveillance society[26]. Len Cook was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1949. ...
National Statistician Directors of the UKs Office for National Statistics (ONS) also hold the title of National Statistician. ...
The Private Finance Initiative specifies a method, developed initially by the United Kingdom government, to provide financial support for Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) between the public and private sectors. ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), (in French: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an international organisation of those developed countries that accept the principles of representative democracy and a free market economy. ...
shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Big Brother Awards recognize the government and private sector organizations. ...
Privacy International (PI) has been instrumental in establishing the modern international privacy movement. ...
In the United Kingdom, the Citizen Information Project (CIP) is a plan by the Office for National Statistics to build a national population register. ...
The Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) in the United Kingdom, is an independent government authority and reports directly to Parliament. ...
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See also The General Register Office is that part of the government of England and Wales that deals with the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. ...
UK Census 2001 logo A nationwide census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001. ...
This is a list of topics related to the United Kingdom. ...
Her Majestys Government of the United Kingdom contains a number of Ministers and Secretaries of State. ...
External links
References - ^ John Pullinger (1997). "The Creation of the Office for National Statistics", International Statistical Review, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 291-308.
- ^ a b Office for National Statistics: location maps, www.statistics.gov.uk, retrieved 10 June 2007.
- ^ "Newport to be ONS headquarters", National Statistics news release, 20 September 2004, retrieved 9 June 2007.
- ^ "The Lyons Review: Independent Review of public sector relocation", HM Treasury website.
- ^ "ONS set to close down London HQ", news report from the BBC website.
- ^ "Stats staff 'quitting' over move", news report from the BBC website, 14 May 2007.
- ^ Debate on the Statistics and Registration Service Bill in the House of Lords, 24 April 2007, Hansard, Column 597.
- ^ "Bank of England comments on recent ONS performance", a submission made by the Bank of England to the Treasury Sub-Committee inquiry into progress on the efficiency programme in the Chancellor's departments, May 2007.
- ^ "Bank warns on ONS move to Wales", news report from the BBC website, 10 May 2007.
- ^ "Statistics officers get the measure of relocation", article by Karen Dunnell, Financial Times, 4 June 2007, retrieved 7 June 2007.
- ^ "National Statistician - Director Office for National Statistics", 10 Downing Street press notice, 4 August 2005, retrieved 9 June 2007.
- ^ Statement to the House of Commons on the review of the Framework for National Statistics, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 28 November 2005.
- ^ Budget Statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 22 March 2006
- ^ "A Vision for National Statistics", Royal Statistical Society.
- ^ "Legislation to build trust in statistics", a report by the Statistics Commission.
- ^ Liberal Democrats Manifesto General Election 2005.
- ^ "Let Parliament appoint new UK statistics chief", press release from Conservative Party website.
- ^ Labour Party Manifesto, General Election 1997, Keele University website.
- ^ "Statistics And Registration Service Bill", House of Commons Explanatory Note to the Bill, para. 7-8. Retrieved 10 June 2007.
- ^ "Statistics And Registration Service Bill", House of Commons Explanatory Note to the Bill, para. 42. Retrieved 10 June 2007.
- ^ "National Statistician welcomes Statistics and Registration Service Bill", news release from ONS website.
- ^ "National Statistics Code of Practice", ONS website
- ^ "Statistics and Registration Service Bill", progress of the Bill through the UK Parliament from Parliament website.
- ^ United Kingdom National Accounts - The Blue Book 2006
- ^ Minutes of evidence given before the Select Committee on Treasury, 30 October 2002.
- ^ "Beware rise of Big Brother state, warns data watchdog", Times Online, 16 August 2004.
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