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From: Lisa Evans
14 March 2010
Dear Office for National Statistics,
I would like to request a copy of the latest data from the COINS
database sent to the Office of National Statistics from HM
Treasury.
Yours faithfully,
Lisa Evans
From: Lauren Brown
Office for National Statistics
15 March 2010
FOI Team
Please could you advise and respond to the following email.
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Dear Office for National Statistics,
I would like to request a copy of the latest data from the COINS
database sent to the Office of National Statistics from HM
Treasury.
Yours faithfully,
Lisa Evans
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From: Paul Wearn
Office for National Statistics
19 April 2010
Our Reference: FOI00940/Evans/QE1
Thank you for your email. I am writing to confirm that the Office for
National Statistics has now completed its search for the information which
you requested and a copy of the information is attached.
(See attached file: FOI00940Evans.pdf)
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From: Lisa Evans
20 April 2010
Dear Paul Wearn,
Thank you for your reply.
I have worked with the members of HM Treasury team who are
responsible for COINS and have a good understanding of the
processes involved in COINS data entry. I know that the data is
entered by departments as described here:
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/pesp_cra.htm
in particular in Annex B - Best practise for the CRA data
collection
What interests me in your reply is the statement:
"The data in the extract are in-year monitoring data and, as such,
have not been audited."
Could I clarify that the reason you rejected my request for the
Excel spreadsheet from COINS is because the data you receive is not
audited?
If so, is the COINS data the ONS receives audited or checked before
it is used in the ONS reports?
Finally, if the audited or checking does take place, could you
advice how the audited COINS data is stored before it is used in
the ONS reports?
Yours sincerely,
Lisa Evans
David Jones left an annotation (11 June 2010)
They have not responded to your request for clarification. Perhaps you should prod them?
I know COINS has been published, but it still would be useful to see what "snapshot" the ONS get sent. They say it contains 800,000 records, which is considerably fewer than the 23 million or so that a year's worth of COINS contains, so someone is doing some summarisation.
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