Content
   • History and the need for a framework
   • The toolkit
     • Assurance level
     • The four practice areas
     • Quality management actions
   • Using the framework
   • Benefits
   Context of Admin Data
   • Admin data used for statistics for over 150 years 
    in the UK
   • New technology enabling greater use of admin 
    data
   • General assumptions:
     • ‘admin data can be 
     relied upon with little 
     challenge’ 
     • ‘unlike survey data, 
     admin data are not 
     subject to any 
     uncertainties’ 
    History: 
    Police Recorded Crime Statistics
  • In January 2014 the independent UK Statistics 
    Authority removed the “National Statistics” 
    designation from Police Recorded Crime Statistics
    
      Concern over quality of 
     underlying data
    
      Concern over compliance 
     with recording standards
    
      Lack of information on quality
      Meeting the regulatory standard
      Code of Practice for Official Statistics
                               The National Statistics 
                               designation means that 
                               the statistics are 
                               trustworthy, high quality 
                               and valuable  
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   Admin Data Quality Toolkit
   • UK Statistics Authority Developed
   Administrative Data Quality Assurance Toolkit
   • Enable benefits of administrative data
   • Recognise that statistics derived from 
    administrative data are subject to:
     • a range of potential biases
     • incompleteness 
     • errors