User guide on European statistics on international trade in goods — The purpose of this guide is to explain to a wide range of users how the statistics relating to trade in goods, both between EU Member States and with non-EU countries, are collected, compiled, processed and published at Europea...
This handbook is an update of the 1999 edition. Over the last 14 years many developments had some impact on the compilation of quarterly national accounts (QNA). They include the update of the European system of national accounts (ESA 2010) and associated transmission programme, the work of task...
This handbook has been prepared as a practical tool at the disposal of compilers of ESA 2010-based national and regional accounts. Its objective is to translate the voluntary EU recommendations on data revisions into specific practices ensuring accurate, reliable, consistent and comparable data....
The Manual on the changes between ESA 95 and ESA 2010 sets out a description of the changes, the consequences for the national accounts and European accounts compiled in the European Union, and worked examples showing the effects of the changes. It provides Member States with the guidance necess...
The Eurostat-OECD compilation guide on inventories represents the first comprehensive overview of conceptual and practical issues related to the compilation of the balance-sheet item ‘inventories’ in the national accounts. The estimation of inventories and changes in inventories in national acco...
The 2007-2009 global financial and economic crises revealed severe weaknesses in the system of macroeconomic infra-annual statistics which prevent a prompt detection of the crises especially when in the making. The purpose of this handbook is to provide statistical and econometric guidance on ha...
The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) was drawn up by Eurostat over 30 years ago in order to provide a breakdown of the economic territory of the European Union into territorial units for the production of regional statistics and for targeting political interventions at a r...
The main objective of this Compilers Guide is to provide a comprehensive overview of the compilation of indicators on trade in goods by enterprise characteristics (TEC). It aims to serve as a methodological handbook providing the necessary definitions, instructions and methodological guidance fo...
The city data collection is one of the regular data collections of Eurostat and the national statistical institutes. The demand for timely and reliable socio-economic data on cities and functional urban areas has significantly increased. Since 2017, the cities and their functional urban areas ar...
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) account for the greatest share of displaced populations globally. In order to aptly inform related responses, accurate and practical data and statistics on IDPs are necessary. Yet to date, and despite the particular conceptual and measurement challenges IDP st...