International cooperation
Eurostat is actively participating in international developments in the field of quality.
Examples of such cooperation include:
- the setting up of the National Quality Assurance Framework with the UNSD
- involvement in the UN expert group on the national quality assurance frameworks
- work on projects to set up and improve quality frameworks and quality assurance in countries outside of the EU
- the promotion of ESS quality standards to countries outside the EU
- participation in international workshops
- seminars on quality.
Another aspect of international work is the benchmarking and comparison of ESS quality standards with other international quality frameworks: