1. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions It’s good to be back: stats group priorities 2012 Roger Halliday February 2012

2. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions What I’m going to cover 1 How we see ourselves 2 How others see us 3 What I bring from Whitehall 4 Priorities for 2012

3. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions Perceptions and feedback Trust: Valued as professional, expert Ambassadors: strong external relationships Delivery: Commitment to quality and timeliness Accessibility: Prizing out our gems of knowledge Insight: Great at “what?”, need to give greater “so what?” and “what next?” Presentation: Visual and tailored for audience Evidence for policy: being seen as part of team Priorities: keeping statistics impact on outcomes

4. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions What Whitehall taught me What I bring cross profession working Insight & influence Presentation key to trust external collaboration

5. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions GSS strategy

6. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions What Andrew Dilnott says Use made communication Improve documentation Maximise use of admin data

7. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions Current strategic developments Right strategic direction –Establishing efficiencies e.g. surveys –Working with public organisations –Linking data –Dissemination strategy –Training and development activity

8. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions What this means for 2012 Staff & training Communication and insight Statisticians as analysts & members of policy teams Value in collecting admin data and data linkage

9. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions Dissemination strategy Look outside GSS for data Products around themes Explain limitations Use new technologies Maintain trust in our outputs Make most of data The right products Media relationships Products for Ministers External collaboration User segmentation Access to data for further analysis

10. Chief Statistician Intro - ScotStat – Feb 2012 Powerful outputs, influencing decisions Segmentation of users