Some years ago, I talked to Andrew Dilnot, then principal of an Oxford college, now head of the UK Statistics Authority. He picked up a copy of the Guardian front page, jabbed his finger at the figure ...

Last week I examined one of two recent instances of what I described as official misuse and abuse of Guyana’s economic statistics. That was the absurd inference contained in the Minister of ...

Among economists, econometricians and statisticians who conduct serious research on the Caribbean and expend considerable effort mining the region’s economic datasets, Guyana has held the unsavory ...

Boris Johnson’s spokesman has accused the head of the UK Statistics Authority as suffering from “amnesia” in an increasingly bitter row over the how much money Britain sends the EU. The Foreign ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ministers, officials and journalists need to be on their guard when misusing statistics after the new chairman ...

The recent essay by Michael Jindra and Arthur Sakamoto (“When Ideology Drives Social Science,” The Chronicle Review, March 6), was remarkably naïve and ill-informed. Excellent and responsible ...

The work and pensions select committee launches an inquiry after Duncan Smith was rebuked by the UK Statistics Authority for misrepresenting figures on the benefit cap. By George Eaton With ...

The claim that 8,000 people moved into work as a result of the benefit cap is "unsupported by the official statistics", says the UK Statistics Authority. By George Eaton Once again, the Tories have ...

Over the past two weeks, Patrick Boyle of the American Meat Institute (AMI) has asserted that, according to USDA testing data, the incidence of E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef has decreased by 45% ...