This Statistics in Focus presents the first results of an ad hoc survey on relationships between enterprises outside the normal customer/supplier relations. It analyses the extent, scope, effects and trends in relationships between enterprises in six EU Member States and across 21 economic activ...
Trade in services between the European Union and the Mediterranean Partner Countries is increasing gradually. The balance, in favour of the Mediterranean countries, has almost doubled in ten years, mainly because of the development of tourism, while business services show a significant surplus i...
An Atlas on Mortality in the European Union has just been published. This Statistics in Focus highlights important causes of avoidable mortality below age 65, namely ischaemic heart disease, lung cancer, alcohol-related mortality, suicide, transport accidents, cervical cancer and AIDS. These cau...
In 2008, approximately 46% of young adults (aged 18-34) in the European Union still lived with at least one of their parents (Figure 1). The disparities across the EU have been examined so as to shed new light on the situation of young people in our societies. This topic is of particular relevan...
Industrial import price indices are one of the Principal European Economic Indicator (PEEI) compiled in the framework of short-term business statistics (STS). The publication contains an analysis of import price developments by main industrial grouping (MIG) and by the origin of imports (intra/e...
The total number of passengers transported by air to, from or within the EU-27 Member States in the year 2007 grew to 793 million. This represented a growth of 7.3% compared with 2006. All Member States recorded increases in the number of air passengers and the strongest growth was once again ob...
This publication shows the most relevant data on state aid in the EU and the Member States, covering breakdowns by objectives and developments over time....
In 2007, there were 2 566 persons killed or seriously injured in railway accidents in the EU-27, which is comparable to the 2006 value and represents an estimated 19.7% decrease compared to 2005. Less than 18% of the victims (fatalities and seriously injured) were either train passengers or rail...
The Utilized Agricultural Area (UAA) refers to the land used for farming; it includes arable land, permanent grassland, permanent crops and also kitchen gardens. The distribution of the UAA between large and small farms varies among the countries but in most countries a small number of farms occ...
This publication presents the main results of the EU Labour Force Survey for the EU-27 as a whole and for all Member States for the year 2012. It covers important indicators such as the employment rate, part-time employment as a share of total employment, number of employed persons by economic a...