Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Union. Established in 1953 and based in Luxembourg, it is part of the European Commission. Its role is to provide the European Union with high-quality statistics that enable comparisons between countries and regions.
Responsibilities
Eurostat has two main areas of responsibility. Firstly, in close cooperation with the national statistical authorities of the EU Member States, it develops harmonized methods for the production of statistics.
Secondly, Eurostat calculates and publishes total figures, aggregates, for the European Union and the euro area. As Eurostat does not conduct its own surveys in EU Member States, statistics from specific areas are transmitted to Eurostat by individual countries.
The methodology applied by EU Member States in the data collection as well as the delivery deadlines for transmission to Eurostat are regulated to a large degree by EU legislation.
Eurostat’s statistics enable straightforward comparisons...
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Radermacher, W.J. (2011). Eurostat. In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_29
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