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
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72FebruaryOctober 2024 — See all updates
Documents
Accessibility statement for DBT statistics
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/accessibility-statement-for-dbt-statistics/accessibility-statement-for-dbt-statistics
Details
Official statistics published by DBT follow the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice for Statistics.
Updates to this page
Last updated
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Updated section 3.5 'Building materials and components: monthly statistics – revisions policy' of the DBT statistics error policy
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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.
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First published.
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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.