Eurostat

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Eurostat is a Directorate-General of the European Commission located in Luxembourg. Its main responsibilities are to provide statistical information to the institutions of the European Union (EU) and to promote the harmonisation of statistical methods across its member states and candidates for accession as well as EFTA countries. The organisations in the different countries which actively cooperate with Eurostat are summarised under the concept of the European Statistical System.

Organisation

Eurostat operates pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 223/2009. As a Directorate-General of the Commission, Eurostat is allocated to the portfolio of the European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, Marianne Thyssen.[1]

The current Director-General of Eurostat is Walter Radermacher since 2008, former President of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany. Current Deputy Director-General is Mariana Kotzeva since 2014, former President of the National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria.[2]

History

Directors General

Name Nationality Term
Rolf Wagenführ  West Germany 1952–1966
Raymond Dumas  France 1966–1973
Jacques Mayer  France 1973–1977
Aage Dornonville de la Cour  Denmark 1977–1982
Pieter de Geus  Netherlands 1982–1984
Silvio Ronchetti  Italy 1984–1987
Yves Franchet  France 1987–2003
Michel Vanden Abeele  Belgium 2003–2004
Günther Hanreich  Austria 2004–2006
Hervé Carré  France 2006–2008
Walter Radermacher  Germany 2008–present

Main areas of statistical activities

The Eurostat statistical work is structured into Themes and Sub-themes.

EU Policy Indicators
  • Structural Indicators
  • Euro indicators/ Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEI)
  • Sustainable Development Indicators
General and regional statistics
  • Regions and cities
  • International Co-operation
  • Co-operation with Mediterranean countries-MEDSTAT programme
  • Candidate and potential candidate countries
Economy and finance
  • National accounts (including GDP)
  • ESA 95 Input-Output tables
  • European sector accounts
  • Government finance statistics
  • Financial accounts
  • Exchange rates
  • Interest rates
  • Monetary and other financial statistics
  • Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices (HICP)
  • Balance of payments
Population and social conditions
  • Population
  • Health (Public health/ Health and safety at work)
  • Education and training
  • Labour market (including LFS - Labour Force Survey)
  • Living conditions and social protection
  • Crime and criminal justice
  • Culture
Industry, trade and services
Agriculture and fisheries
  • Agriculture
  • Forestry
  • Fisheries
  • Food: from farm to fork
External trade Transport
Environment and energy
  • Environment
  • Energy
Science and technology

General statistical activities related to the European Statistical system are:

Access to Eurostat statistics

The most important statistics are made available via press releases. They are placed on the Eurostat website at 11:00 in the morning. This is also the time that the press release content may be distributed to the public by press agencies.

Eurostat disseminates its statistics free of charge via its Internet and its statistical databases that are accessible via the Internet. The statistics are hierarchically ordered in a navigation tree. Tables are distinguished from multi-dimensional datasets from which the statistics are extracted via an interactive tool.

In addition various printed publications are available either in electronic form free on the internet or in printed form via the EU Bookshop. Only larger publications are charged for as printed copies.

Since September 2009 Eurostat has pioneered a fully electronical way of publishing, Statistics Explained,[6] like Wikipedia based on Mediawiki open source software and with a largely similar structure and navigation. Statistics Explained is not only a dissemination format, however, but also a wiki working platform for producing flagship publications like the Eurostat Yearbook.[7]

Ireland now has the lowest tax-to-GDP measure across 30 European countries, new figures from Eurostat have shown. The metric is calculated by dividing the tax revenue collected by the Government from the gross domestic product (GDP).

Statistical data for research purposes

Microdata, which in principle allows the identification of the statistical unit (e.g. a person in the labour force survey or a company for innovation statistics), is treated as strictly confidential. Under tight security procedures various anonymised datasets are provided to research institutions for validated research projects.

See also

References

  1. "Commissioner Marianne Thyssen". Ec.europa.eu. 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
  2. EU-Pressemitteilung
  3. Archived October 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. Castle, Stephen; Saltmarsh, Matthew (15 February 2010). "Greece Pressed to Take Action on Economic Woes". The New York Times. … the European Commission proposed powers for Eurostat to audit the books of national governments
  5. "European Statistics Code of Practice". eurostat. Archived from the original on 2011-05-20.
  6. "Statistics Explained". Epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  7. Archived August 12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
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