The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and Centre for Public Data (CfPD) convened a roundtable of experts researching wealth in the UK alongside representatives from the ONS working on the Wealth and Assets Survey to discuss data gaps in the UK’s wealth statistics. This roundtable was the second in a series of meetings that we will hold as part of our poverty data gaps research, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF) Insight Infrastructure team..
RSS response to the UK government's consultation on the equality (race and disability) bill: mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting.
RSS responds to the inquiry about statutary inquiries, seeking to highlight the crucial need for consideration of data and statistics as part of any inquiry - from the outset as a de facto requirement.
Letter to the head of the FA from President Dr. Andrew Garrett regarding the use of VAR in football matches, sent following contraversy regarding the use of VAR in the Tottenham vs Liverpool Premier League match on Saturday 30 September.
Letter from the RSS to the chair of the Lucy Letby Inquiry, requesting that the scope of the inquiry covers the appropriate use of statistical evidence in cases of medical murder.
Submitted on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society by the RSS Section on Statistics and the Law. In particular, we draw attention to the prevalence of dangerously misleading statistical arguments in the current literature, and the consequent need for expert statistical input. We also present some recommendations regarding the use of software systems in analysing and producing legal evidence.
More about the inquiry.
Read the final report.