About the Society
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is the UK's only professional and learned society devoted to the interests of statistics and statisticians. It is also one of the most influential and prestigious statistical societies in the world. The Society has an international membership, and is active in a wide range of areas both directly and indirectly pertaining to the study and application of statistics.
Our main purposes are:
- To nurture the discipline of statistics by publishing a Journal, organising meetings, setting and maintaining professional standards, accrediting university courses and operating examinations.
- To promote the discipline of statistics by disseminating and encouraging statistical knowledge and good practice with both producers and consumers of statistics, and in society at large.
- To provide effective and efficient services to our members which will support their professional and academic interests and their endeavours to advance the other objectives of the Society.
Latest Press Releases
- Government urged to make better use of its prisons’ drug-testing data – Royal Statistical Society
- Statistics User Forum welcomes Commons committee’s strong recommendations to improve population statistics
- Royal Statistical Society: “new Authority welcome - but crisis of confidence in UK statistics needs more”
- Spotlight shone on statistics on income, earnings and wealth
- Evidence given on impact on ONS of efficiency and modernisation programmes
- Working party on statistical issues in first-in-man studies

