I am a government statistician working for Social Security Scotland and Scottish Government.

I lead Scottish Child Payment official statistics and help improve how statistics are produced through reproducible analytical pipelines (RAPs), open-source development and modern analytical practices.

A key area of interest is supporting colleagues to develop coding capability, adopt RAP principles and produce high-quality statistics in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.

I also happen to be Deaf.

• Official statistics
• Scottish Child Payment statistics
• Reproducible analytical pipelines
• R programming
• Git and GitHub
• Statistical quality assurance
• Data governance and disclosure control
• Developing analytical capability.

name: Ken O'Neill
job: Government statistician
job location: Glasgow
career history:
  Scottish Government, October 2012 - to date,
  Social Security Scotland, January 2022 - to date,
  Accountant in Bankruptcy, January 2019 - January 2022
professional memberships:
  Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
  Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

• About the Scottish Child Payment benefit
• Social Security Scotland's official statistics work
• Latest statistics published by Social Security Scotland
• sssstats R package
• Code of Practice for Statistics.

For any queries in related to official statistics produced by Social Security Scotland, please get in touch with Social Security Scotland's statistics mailbox.

Unless stated otherwise, my public Gists are released under the MIT Licence.