Career

She joined the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys

The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys , was created in May 1970 through the merger of the General Register Office and the Government Social Survey Department....

 in 1975. She worked on the Expenditure and Food Survey

Expenditure and Food Survey

The Expenditure and Food Survey is now the Living Costs and Food Survey.The Expenditure and Food Survey is a survey conducted by the Office for National Statistics and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which collects data about private household expenditure and food...

 and the General Household Survey

General Household Survey

The General Household Survey is a survey conducted on an annual basis by the Office for National Statistics and collects data about private households in Great Britain...

. After 1998 she worked on Neighbourhood Statistics

Neighbourhood statistics

The Neighbourhood Statistics Service was established in 2001 by the UK's Office for National Statistics and the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit - then part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister , now Communities and Local Government - to provide good quality small area data to support the...

. At the ONS between 2004-8, she was the Director of Census, Demographic and Regional Statistics.

She is a member of the Social Research Association

Social Research Association

The Social Research Association , founded in 1978, is a British and Irish organisation open to practitioners and researchers interested in all branches of social research. It is a Learned Society member of the UK Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences...

 and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

Royal Statistical Society

The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...

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National Statistician

She succeeded Dame Karen Dunnell

Karen Dunnell

Dame Karen Hope Dunnell, DCB was National Statistician and Chief Executive of the Office for National Statistics of the United Kingdom and head of the Government Statistical Service from 1 September 2005 until retiring on 28 August 2009...

 as National Statistician on 1 September 2009, and Chief Executive of the UK Statistics Authority

UK Statistics Authority

The UK Statistics Authority is an independent body operating at arm's length from Government as a non-ministerial department, directly accountable to Parliament...

 (and the Office for National Statistics

Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the Parliament of the United Kingdom.- Overview :...

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