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Breaches of the Code of Practice

Definition

Breaches of principles, or associated protocols, within the Code of Practice for Official Statistics occur in situations where non-observance of the Code was not approved in advance by the National Statistician or Head of Profession (Chief Statistician or Registrar General in Scotland). An example would be a deliberate, or inadvertent, ‘leak’ to the press.

Breaches

2007 Mid-year Population Estimates for Scotland, July 2008 (PDF 19 Kb)

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