The seventh issue and third birthday for the review since its relaunch. The ambition is always to address a wide range of the issues affecting Official Statistics. On an educational level, it addresses statisticians, whether beginners or experts, students and teachers, as well as citizens whom the “manufacture” of statistics concerns.

The first two articles cover the integration of mixed-mode data collection into the surveys, addressing the issues of which methods and tools to use to take advantage of this new approach to data collection. One major statistical operation is modernising: the agricultural census is now collected on a mixed-mode basis. Comprehensive administrative sources are more accessible, but are they easy to use? One example is the granular analysis of household property holdings.

Data may set the tone of this issue but the latter still extensively covers the instruments that allow that data to be used and heard. A good command of cloud computing and IT development techniques are proposed to ensure the quality of statistical output. Statisticians must also be able to work in conjunction with other academic disciplines, such as psychometrics in the assessment of students’ abilities. Finally, the development of a classification of crimes demonstrates how useful it is to adopt a common framework to store, classify and analyse data.