The phrase "statistics authorities" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you could use the phrase in a sentence such as, "The statistics authorities have reported a rise in unemployment numbers this month."
So despite the threat of the statistics authorities confirming that Britain has entered a triple-dip recession tomorrow, Ed Miliband chose to focus this PMQs on the NHS.
Good governments respect the institutions that provide sound and impartial analysis – universities, the civil service, statistics authorities – and advance their work, rather than routinely falling foul of it themselves.
The change to the UK's contribution resulted from a reassessment of national incomes carried out by statistics authorities in each of the 28 member states, and led to large demands for extra money from Britain, the Netherlands, Italy and Greece, while countries like France and Germany stand to gain to the tune of hundreds of millions of euros.
The Gender and Land Rights Database, which has been produced in consultation with national statistics authorities, universities and civil society groups, contains information on the major social, economic, political and cultural factors that impact on access to land and women's rights in 78 countries around the world.
"We cannot have a negotiation about the GDP of different countries... this should be left to independent statistics authorities". He added that Eurostat, the EU statistics authority, which had come up with the calculation, was itself an independent body.
The Statistics Authorities for the Federal States of Schleswig-Holstein (www.statistik-sh.de) and Lower Saxony (www.nls.niedersachsen.de) provided population estimates for the period 1990 2002 for the communities within the 5-km radius of the KKK, as well as population estimates for the six counties neighboring the study region (data files by calender year).
In fact, statistical analysis by your correspondent, sent to the statistics authority, suggested that these differences in results gains may not have been anything to do with whether the schools were academies or not.
The figures did not show that, the statistics authority said.
Realistically, how can you expect a statistics authority to keep up with a person like this?
The chair of the UK statistics authority said the situation was "unacceptable".
The statistics authority criticised the "coherence" of Duncan Smith's statistics and, once again, the manner in which his department presented them to the public.
