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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Early example of the open public data principle, from a report produced in 1990 by @royalstatsoc.bsky.social's Working Party on Official Statistics in the UK academic.oup.com/jrsssa/artic... #opendata #deepcuts

Screenshot of a highlighted passage in 'Official Statistics: Counting with Confidence' a report produced in 1990 by the Royal Statistical Society's Working Party on Official Statistics in the UK:

"Many statistical inquiries are financed through public money and depend on public co-operation for the information provided. It follows that, subject to constraints to protect the confidentiality of individual respondents, the public are rightful consumers of the statistical product. Analyses should be in the public domain and basic data made available for further analyses."