Six global indicators with real-world impact

Categories: Environment, Health, ONS
Tree with Right hand side full of leaves on health patch of grass and the other half is dead with no leaves on a dried up patch of mud

The ONS has been helping to establish global standards for official statistics on climate and health.  In March this year, the United Nations Statistical Commission decided to incorporate six new indicators developed in this project into the authoritative Global Set of Climate Change Related Indicators and Statistics.  Here Myer Glickman,  Head of Climate and Global Health at the Office for National Statistics, explains what has been involved and his hopes for what they will achieve.

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Making progress on improving UK financial statistics

James Benford is Director-General for Surveys and Economic and Social Statistics at the Office for National Statistics.
Categories: ONS

The International Monetary Fund has today recognised that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is fully meeting the Special Data Dissemination Standard Plus, the highest tier of IMF’s data standards.   James Benford and Rebecca Richmond reflect on the new data we are now publishing and how this lays the foundation for further improvements. 

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