Credit: Lukas/Pixabay Government statisticians working on health and social care should be “proactive” about reducing the risk that the data they publish is misused, the UK’s stats regulator has said. During the years since the onset of the pandemic, there has been an “increased public appetite for data and statistics about Covid-19,” resulting in government bodies that produce stats looking for new ways to meet the public’s needs and communicate with a greater range of users, the Office for Statistics Regulation said. The general public has accessed government dashboards and other statistics, especially regarding Covid-19, for a variety of reasons, in numbers that were unprecedented before the pandemic. In a report yesterday, the OSR said officials should learn from this by continuing to create more innovative ways of communicating stats to a wide range of users – but also by minimising the risk of them being accidentally or deliberately misinterpreted. For example, the
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