Dec 10, 2021
In this month’s episode, Professor Tom Scotto speaks to Roger Halliday, Scotland’s Chief Statistician about steps in place to protect the Government Statistical Service from politicalisation and the future of National Statistics. They also gaze out into the 2020s and discuss government statistics in an era of...
Nov 11, 2021
The Code of Practice for Statistics now is in its second version and sets standards for UK national and other statistics. In this podcast, Tom Scotto talks to Sandy Stewart, a government statistician in the Scottish Government’s Office of the Chief Economic Advisor about how the code is a tool is part of...
Oct 12, 2021
Many of the challenges thrown up by early 19th Century efforts at data collection remain relevant to us in an era of omnipresent data. In this inaugural podcast, Tom Scotto talks to Dr. Michela Hulme, a historian, and genealogist who utilizes the UK censuses of the 19th Century in her research.
Discussion focuses on...