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The Statistics Bill: the Treasury's view
Author(s) -
Eagle Angela
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2007.00248.x
Subject(s) - exchequer , treasury , legislation , independence (probability theory) , law , statistical analysis , quality (philosophy) , history , political science , statistics , mathematics , politics , philosophy , epistemology
The bill for the independence of the official statistical system received its final reading in the House of Lords on 20th July, just as this edition of Significance went to press. In this article, Angela Eagle , the new Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, sets out the official view of what this legislation, and associated developments, should mean for statisticians and users of statistics. She looks in particular at how the reforms could raise statistical quality. (An article setting out the Royal Statistical Society's view of the legislation will appear in the next issue.)