The purpose of is to stimulate engagement between users, and between users and producers of official statistics. The site has news of interest to users, materials relating to relevant events, discussion forums and other facilities. It provides a unique online community space for statistics producers and users to make contact, learn about each other's work and share information, documents and views. It is open to anyone with an interest in statistics - both people who are expert in using statistical products and data sets, and non-experts who are interested to find out more about statistics, and connect with the producers of statistics on their topic of interest.