Guidance

DBT standards for official statistics

Documents describing the corporate procedures and standards the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) follows to produce official statistics.

From:: Department for Business and Trade
Published: 12 May 2023
Last updated: 7 February 2024 — See all updates

Documents

Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008: statement of compliance

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Statistical public engagement and data standards

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Accessibility statement for DBT statistics

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/accessibility-statement-for-dbt-statistics/accessibility-statement-for-dbt-statistics

DBT statistics error policy

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Details

Official statistics published by DBT follow the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice for Statistics.

Published 12 May 2023
Last updated 7 February 2024 + show all updates

7 February 2024
Information in the section of DBT statistics error policy relating to the Building materials and components statistics publication have been changed to reflect changes to the publication's revisions policy. More specifically, changes in the table showing the revision schedules and changes relating to the use of provisional and revised data markers have been made.

12 May 2023
First published.

Update history

2026-07-17 09:30
Updated policies added to the page to comply with the new Code of Practice published by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). Specifically, the following new HTML attachments were added to the page: ‘Statistical work programme: 2026 to 2027’, ‘Statement of code compliance’, ‘Confidentiality policy’, ‘Data management approach’, ‘Public involvement and engagement strategy’, ‘Quality management approach’, ‘Release practice policy’, ‘Revisions and corrections policy’. The following HTML attachments were removed from the page: ‘Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008: statement of compliance’, ‘Statistical public engagement and data standards’, ‘DBT statistics error policy’.

2024-10-02 09:30
Updated section 3.5 ‘Building materials and components: monthly statistics – revisions policy’ of the DBT statistics error policy

2024-02-07 09:30
Information in the section of DBT statistics error policy relating to the Building materials and components statistics publication have been changed to reflect changes to the publication’s revisions policy. More specifically, changes in the table showing the revision schedules and changes relating to the use of provisional and revised data markers have been made.

2023-05-12 21:20
First published.