Guidance

DBT standards for official statistics

Department for Business and Trade's (DBT) statistical work programme and corporate standards for producing official statistics.

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12 May 2023

Last updated:

17 July 2026

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17 July 2026
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'.
2 October 2024
Updated section 3.5 'Building materials and components: monthly statistics – revisions policy' of the DBT statistics error policy
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.