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Last month, the ONS’s former head Sir Ian Diamond resigned with immediate effect due to health reasons.In April, the UK’s Office for Statistics Regulation had set out its concerns about the quality of the data provided by the ONS itself.These concerns focused on, but were not limited to, widely-recognised problems with the Labour Force Survey which is used to measure the unemployment rate in the UK.Since the pandemic, statistics agencies around the world have struggled to get good enough response rates to ensure their data is of the quality they would like.The regulator said it would like more assurance that the ONS had sufficient steps in place to regularly review and improve sample design and representativeness, tackling bias, survey methodology, and imputation. …
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