Standards for official statistics published by DfE

Documents describing the standards we follow to produce official statistics.

Documents

Pre-release access to official statistics order 2008

PDF, 239KB, 12 pages

Hive IT – DfE data dissemination discovery

PDF, 3.97MB, 29 pages

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Developing DfE statistics in 2018

Ref: DFE-00048-2018PDF, 256KB, 20 pages

Statement of administrative sources

Ref: DFE-00156-2017PDF, 453KB, 7 pages

Statistical policy statement on revisions

Ref: DFE-00155-2017PDF, 390KB, 6 pages

Quality assurance of education statistics

Ref: DFE-00158-2017PDF, 480KB, 11 pages

Policy statement on confidentiality

PDF, 124KB, 6 pages

Statistical quality principles and procedures

PDF, 128KB, 7 pages

Statement of compliance with the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008

PDF, 166KB, 10 pages

Statistical policy statement on user engagement

PDF, 158KB, 8 pages

School census: data quality and processing

Ref: DFE-00260-2017PDF, 147KB, 7 pages

Details

Topics covered include:

• administrative sources (data from schools, local authorities, and other organisations, including awarding bodies)
• revisions to statistical publications (due to methodology or data changes, or errors)
• confidentiality (through personnel, data and statistical disclosure control)
• quality principles and procedures (including relevance, accuracy, timeliness and punctuality, accessibility and clarity, comparability, and coherence)
• compliance with the pre-release access to the Official Statistics Order 2008 (the operational arrangements for giving ministers and officials pre-release access to DfE official statistics before publication)
• user engagement (how we identify and communicate with our users to provide the statistics they need)
• the steps we take to collect and validate school census data

Published 23 April 2013
Last updated 23 October 2018 + show all updates

1. 23 October 2018 Added ‘Pre-release access to official statistics order 2008’.
2. 3 July 2018 Added ‘Hive IT – DfE data dissemination discovery’ report.
3. 22 February 2018 Added ‘Developing DfE Statistics in 2018’.
4. 14 September 2017 Added document ‘School census: data quality and processing’.
5. 29 June 2017 Updated policy documents on ‘Statement of administrative sources’ and its annex and ‘Statistical policy statement on revisions’. Added ‘Quality assurance of education statistics’.
6. 3 June 2015 Added links to performance tables attainment data and a user survey.
7. 23 May 2014 Added ‘Statement of administrative sources’ and ‘Statement of administrative sources: annex’.
8. 11 March 2014 Replaced ‘Pre-release access to official statistics order 2008’ with updated document.
9. 7 March 2014 ‘Statistical policy statement on user engagement’ document added to page.
10. 23 April 2013 First published.