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Best Practice & Impact Division
Our offer to the GSS
We’re here to help...• Best Practice & Impact (BPI) division has been
created to support the Government Statistical Service:– Provide strategic direction
– Build capability
– Consultancy
– Share best practice
– Develop tools, guidance and standards
– One GSS voice
– Compliance
Strategic direction
Our work is directed and prioritised by
GSS HoPs
Influencers and stakeholdersGSS, SPSC, National Statistician, OSR, International organisations, GSS Presentation & Dissemination Committee, NSEG, GSS Harmonisation Committee
BPI strategic workGSS quality strategy, GSS harmonisation strategy, National Statistics Quality Reviews (NSQRs)
BPI core workBuilding capability, consultancy, share best practice, standards & guidance, single GSS voice and compliance
Build capability
Training courses
Effective charts and tablesCommunicating statisticsQuality and statistics
Seminars
InfographicsWriting about numbersTen things you really need to know about statistics
Workshops
QA of admin and management information dataWorking with usersUse of social mediaBetter statistics better decisions
Scrums Secondment
Consultancy and advice
Code of Practice for Statistics
Assessment support
Breach reports
GSS HoP advice
CoP advice
Consultancy and Expert Advice for the GSSStatistical, Research and Methods expertise
Expert knowledge of the Code of Practice for Statistics
Statistics, Research and Methods
Methodology Advisory Service (MAS)
Academic Peer Review via MAC
Advice on presentation, dissemination, quality and harmonisation
Statistics Function
Independent review of GSS statistical teams capabilities, processes and outputs
Share best practice
Case studiesIdentify best practice on specific issues and share with teams e.g. revisions
analysis
SymposiumsMethodology
Presentation & Dissemination
ChampionsQuality
PresentationHarmonisation
Geography
Innovation seminars
Sharing seminars
Develop tools, guidanceand standards
Harmonised standards
GSS guidance
statisticsauthority.gov.uk/policy-store/
One GSS Voice
GSS twitter@UKGSS | @GSSGoodPractice
gss.civilservice.gov.uk/
GSS website GSS slack
gov-stats-service.slack.com
UK Data Forum
Compliance
RAG rating statistical products on presentation, quality and harmonisation
Measuring the burden (survey compliance) of the GSS on households and businesses
New ways of working with the GSS
Methodology
• MAC
• MAS
Harmonisation
• Governance
Quality
• NSQRs
Revamped Methodology Advisory Committee (MAC)
The New• Large virtual committee of academic and GSS
experts to draw upon• Academic peer review function• Responsive to new GSS projects• Survey compliance boards
The Old• Academics and GSS committee met 2 or 3 times a year• Demand for MAC advice low• Projects did not match committee expertise
Do you think this revamped service would be more useful to the GSS?
Methodology Advisory Service
• Small methodological pieces of work (10-15 days FTE)
• Not business as usual work
• Free service from 2018/19 (but with some restrictions)
Time series
Sampling
Imputation
Statistical analysis
Data collection
Is a methodology service still of use to the GSS? Are there methods missing? Will you make more use of MAS when it’s a free service?
Harmonisation governance
Harmonisation team
Impact analysis on the GSS
National Statistics Harmonisation Group
GSS harmonisation champions G7 and
belowEngagement
Harmonisation Steering Group(Sub Com SPSC)Select GSS SCS
Decision on approval
GSS HoP meetingsGSS HoPs
Engagement
Statistical Policy & Standards
Committee (SPSC)Select GSS SCS
Influencing across the GSS
National Statistics Executive
Committee (NSEG)Select GSS SCS
High profile decisions
Influencers:Changing society, International standards, etc
When a new harmonised principle is required the Harmonisation team will assess the impact of creating this principle across the GSS. They will engage with harmonisation champions and HoPs across the GSS to understand who wants to be involved in the work, and understand the wider impacts. A recommendation will put forward to the Steering Group who decides if the work should progress. SPSC will assist the harmonisation team have impact
and influence across the GSS and report progress into NSEG or escalate high profile decisions.
National Statistics Quality Reviews (NSQRs)
several years
intelligence gathered through OSR engagement
activity
statistics system meeting user needs
always published
Lead organisation
Timescale
Selection criteria
Focus
Outputs
within a year
ideas generated by the GSS
leaning towards methodology and quality issues
published when deemed of value to do so
Systemic Reviews NSQRs
Upcoming work
April May June July Aug Sept
NSQR privacy and confidentiality
Cultural background harmonisation review
Consultancy: NHS Digital
Consultancy: VOA
Launch RAG reviews
Launch revamped GSS website
Innovation seminars
Questions, comments, suggestions
• Is this the right ‘offer’ to the GSS?
• What do you value the most?
• What is missing?