The publication provides a detailed description of the EU receipts and expenditure for travel within the framework of balance of payments statistics. It identifies the main markets and illustrates the evolution in recent years. The main data sources used in this publication are Eurostat database...
In the European Union (EU-27), the compilation of government revenue and expenditure data is well established by reference to the European System of Accounts (ESA95). This publication focuses on the developments in annual data in the context of the economic and financial crisis, examining the fi...
In recent years Eurostat has significantly expanded the range of integrated quarterly data available on government finances, providing a timely and increasingly high quality picture of the evolution of government finances in the EU. These data now reflect non-financial, financial and debt aspect...
The aim of this Statistics in Focus is to examine the extent to which women and men in employment across Europe have variable as opposed to fixed working hours. This study is based on data collected for a special ad hoc module of the EU Labour Force Survey on work organisation and working-time a...
The document analyses intra EU transactions in trade in services and foreign direct investment for the period 2004-2008. In the light of the free movement of services and capital in the EU, the document will provide information on the importance of the internal market, recent developments and st...
Manufacture of Basic chemicals is a capital-intensive processing industry, providing a variety of compounds used in many manufacturing processes. Close to 575 thousand persons were employed in over 8500 basic chemical manufacturers, which generated a value added of over EUR 64 billion....
Between 2000 and 2008 the value of EU-27 imports from Brazil almost doubled, while export values, after a sharp fall between 2001 and 2003, more than doubled from the 2003 low point. However, in spite of this performance, the EU trade deficit widened consistently until a slight reduction in 2008...
This edition of Statistics in Focus presents the first results for the 2007-2008 evolution of tourism in Europe. The publication copies the information included in the annual Data in Focus discussing the first results for the previous year, but also analyses the main observations in the context ...
Human resources in science and technology (HRST) are people who have successfully completed tertiary education or are working in an S&T occupation. Of the HRST a large share are not working in an S&T occupation. This gives interesting insights into the balance between demand and supply on the EU...
Services were the main activity of 14.5 million enterprises in the EU-27 in 2005, which generated a turnover of EUR 11 974 billion. Producing a value added of EUR 2 991 billion and employing 76 million persons, Services accounted for respectively 56 % and 60 % of the non-financial business econo...