The Code of Practice for Official Statistics says ministers must "ensure that no statement or comment - based on prior knowledge - is issued to the press or published ahead of the publication of the statistics" and reminds them of their duty "to promote trust and maximise public value" of official data.
The NIST publication provides some interesting statistics on the inventions that have emerged from federal laboratories.
The desperate shortage of affordable homes in England appears to be worsening, following Tuesday's publication of national housing statistics.
Health Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, who attended the report's publication, said the statistics came to him as a shock because his ministry had no idea so many children were killed or injured in accidents each year.
"We note that DWP issued these as a research report, not as official statistics, " Sir Michael writes, adding that the department's website refers to the research as "publication of ad-hoc statistics".
It also recommended that ministerial access to official statistics in advance of publication to be reduced to help increase public confidence in the figures.
Statistics compiled by an online badminton publication suggest Chinese badminton players have a history of taking steps to avoid playing each other.
When people ask me why it is that I write about video games for Forbes, a business publication, I always point them to a series of statistics showing how the industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade or more.
Sir Michael described the publication of the first figures as "irregular and inconsistent" with the UK Statistics Authority's code of practice and the Ministerial Code, and said it should not happen again.
New Zealand and Australia require publication of detailed information on the cost of tapping operations, the categories of crime involved and statistics on its effectiveness.
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