This publication gives an overview of the most important demographic developments in the EU Member States, candidate countries, EFTA countries as well as some EU neighbourhood countries. Information is provided by the national statistical institutes and covers the main demographic issues on...

The ESS Handbook for Quality Reports and the ESS Standard for Quality Reports will assist National Statistical Institutes and Eurostat in meeting the Code of Practice standards by providing recommendations for preparing comprehensive quality reports for the full range of statistical processes...

This publication presents an updated version of the guidelines on the Harmonised European Time Use Surveys (HETUS). The first version, finished in 2000, was based on the recommendations of the final report on Time Use pilot surveys and on the discussions carried out with experts of the National...

This publication presents an updated version of the guidelines on the Harmonised European Time Use Surveys (HETUS). The first version, finished in 2000, was based on the recommendations of the final report on Time Use pilot surveys and on the discussions carried out with experts of the National...

The purpose of this quality report is to provide the users of the European Union Labour Market Statistics with a tool for assessing the quality of these statistics which are based on the European Union Labour Force Survey. It provides a brief description of the survey and a summary of the main...

Description of a common methodology for the collection of pesticide usage statistics within agriculture and horticulture illustrated with a case study in new Member States and Candidate Countries.

The report summarizes the evaluation of the 2006 LFS (Labour Force Survey) ad hoc module on 'transition form work into retirement'. The main objective of this report is to assess the implementation of the ad hoc module 2006 and make recommendations for the repetition of the module in 2012. In...

The Eurostat 2007 Conference "Modern Statistics for Modern Society" was held in Luxemburg on 6 - 7 December 2007. It focused on the need for modernising official statistics as a result of the increasing challenges from a more and more numerate society. The aim of the Conference was threefold: -...

The present document describes the methods used by Member States, candidate and EFTA countries in their surveys on road freight transport statistics. Part A describes national methodologies for data collection. This information is based on questionnaires completed by the reporting countries....

This annually updated quality report provides the users with a tool for assessing the quality of the European Union foreign trade statistics. It gives a summary of the main quality indicators: timeliness, accuracy, accessibility, clarity, comparability, and coherence. The quality report is...