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The ONS functions as the executive office of the National Statistician, who is also the UK Statistics Authority's Chief Executive and principal statistical adviser to the UK's National Statistics Institute, [note 1] and the 'Head Office' of the Government Statistical Service (GSS).
The UK Statistics Authority (UKSA, Welsh: Awdurdod Ystadegau'r DU) is a non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for oversight of the Office for National Statistics, maintaining a national code of practice for official statistics, and accrediting statistics that comply with the Code as National Statistics.
The first Director of ONS was Tim Holt. Subsequent Directors have had this additional title, the National Statistician. The second Director was Len Cook, who had previously held a similar post in New Zealand. He was succeeded by Dame Karen Dunnell on 1 September 2005. Jil Matheson succeeded Karen Dunnell on 1 September 2009. [3]
The 2021 United Kingdom census is the 23rd official census of the United Kingdom.Beginning in 1801, [1] they have been recorded every 10 years. The 2021 censuses of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland took place on 21 March 2021, and the census of Scotland took place 364 days later on 20 March 2022. [2]
The government pledged to develop full UK Environmental Accounts by 2020. In December 2012, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) published a 'roadmap' that set out the timeline for the project to incorporate natural capital into the national accounts.
GSS codes are nine-character geocodes maintained by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics (ONS) to represent a wide range of geographical areas of the UK, for use in tabulating census and other statistical data. GSS refers to the Government Statistical Service of which ONS is part.
The ONS Open Geography portal from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) provides free and open access to the definitive source of geographic information products, web applications, story maps, services and APIs. All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, unless otherwise stated. [1] Products available include:
The ONS coding system was a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ONS refers to the Office for National Statistics . It was replaced by the GSS coding system on 1 January 2011.