Royal Statistical Society launches Data Manifesto for General Election 2015

The Royal Statistical Society has published a 'Data Manifesto' which it is launching to coincide with the UK party conference season. The manifesto has ten recommendations and focuses on how it can improve data for policymaking, democracy and for prosperity.

In the manifesto, the Society calls for official statistics to be at the heart of policy debate and recommends that the Office for National Statistics and the wider Government Statistical Service be given adequate resources, as well as calling for greater investment in research, science and innovation.

Hetan Shah, executive director at the RSS, said: 'We are pleased to launch this Data Manifesto, which brings together many of the Royal Statistical Society’s policy views into one place. It provides a route map for the next government to strengthen data and statistics for better policymaking, greater democracy, and increased prosperity.

‘We hope that RSS fellows based in the UK will use it in the run up to the general election in 2015 to talk to parliamentary candidates and raise the profile of data and statistics issues with them.'

Read the Data Manifesto here
The Royal Statistical Society website