The Statistics User Forum
The Statistics User Forum works to:
- coordinate user community views
- encourage user groups to form and flourish
- bring influence to bear on the producers of statistics
The Forum was set up in 2004 as the successor to the long-established Statistics User Council. It is administered by the Royal Statistical Society and receives financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council.
The Forum comprises the following affiliated and co-opted user groups and organisations:
- Association of Census Distributors
- British Society of Criminology
- British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (BURISA)
- Business Statistics User Group
- Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
- Demographics User Group
- Finance Statistics User Group
- Fire & Rescue Services User Group
- Gender Statistics User Group
- Health Statistics User Group
- International Trade Statistics User Group
- Labour Market Statistics User Group
- Local Authority Research and Intelligence Association (LARIA)
- Market Research Society
- National Accounts User Group
- National Council for Voluntary Organisations
- Output Area Classification User Group
- Society of Business Economists
- Transport Statistics User Group
Additional organisations are observers. These include the Economic and Social Research Council, the CBI, CIPFA, the TUC, the Office for National Statistics and the Statistics Commission.
Latest Press Releases
- Conference spotlights statistics of population, law, health, finance, education and more
- Government urged to make better use of its prisons’ drug-testing data – Royal Statistical Society
- Statistics User Forum welcomes Commons committee’s strong recommendations to improve population statistics
- Royal Statistical Society: “new Authority welcome - but crisis of confidence in UK statistics needs more”
- Spotlight shone on statistics on income, earnings and wealth
- Evidence given on impact on ONS of efficiency and modernisation programmes
- Working party on statistical issues in first-in-man studies

