Archive:Yearbook abstract
- Latest update of text: May 2015. Planned article update: April 2016.
Editors: Teodóra Brandmüller and Åsa Önnerfors
(Eurostat, Unit E.4., Regional statistics and geographical information)
Production: Informa Sàrl — Giovanni Albertone, Simon Allen and Andrew Redpath
Map production: Bilbomática S.A., Guadaltel S.A. — Alex Garitaonandia, Elena Hinojosa and Miguel Peña,
coordinated by Michael Harrop, Åsa Önnerfors, Jørgen Rasmussen and Atanas Trifonov
(Eurostat, Unit E.4., Regional statistics and geographical information)
Dissemination: Isabelle Fiasse
(Eurostat, Unit B.4., Dissemination)
The chief editor and editors of the Eurostat regional yearbook 2015 would like to thank their colleagues who contributed to this publication and, in particular, to members of the steering group — Emanuele Baldacci, Philippe Bautier, Louise Corselli-Nordblad, Christophe Demunter, Marcel Jortay, Fabienne Montaigne, Andrew Redpath, Gunter Schäfer, Tiny Vandewiele and Sylvie Villaume — and to those involved closely in the editorial work for each article:
Introduction: Oliver Müller (Eurostat, Unit E.4., Regional statistics and geographical information)
Regional policies and Europe 2020: Simon Johannes Bley and Fritz Gebhard (Eurostat, Unit E.2., Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development); Lewis Dijkstra (Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy, Unit B.1., Economic analysis); Wolfgang Petzold and Andrea Forti (European Committee of the Regions)
Population: Gabriela Senchea Badea, David Thorogood and Franco Zampogna (Eurostat, Unit F.2., Population)
Health: Margarida Domingues de Carvalho, Marie Clerc, Jacques Lanneluc and Anke Weber (Eurostat, Unit F.5., Education, health and social protection)
Education: Marta Beck-Domżalska, Sabine Gagel and Sorin-Florin Gheorghiu (Eurostat, Unit F.5., Education, health and social protection)
Labour market: Gorja Bartsch and Daniela Sciranková (Eurostat, Unit E.4., Regional statistics and geographical information); Håvard Lien (Eurostat, Unit F.3., Labour market)
Economy: Andreas Krüger (Eurostat, Unit C.2., National and regional accounts production)
Structural business statistics: Beate Czech, Tatiana Mrlianova and Elisaveta Ushilova (Eurostat, Unit G.2., Structural business statistics and global value chains)
Research and innovation: Bernard Félix, Ángeles Hermosa López, Gregor Kyi, Corina Mihaela Niculeţ, Reni Petkova and Geneviève Villette (Eurostat, Unit G.4., Innovation and information society)
Information society: Petronela Reinecke and Heidi Seybert (Eurostat, Unit G.4., Innovation and information society)
Tourism: Christophe Demunter and Sylvie Villaume (Eurostat, Unit G.3., Short-term business statistics and tourism)
Transport: Anna Bialas-Motyl (Eurostat, Unit E.3., Transport)
Agriculture: Roberta Forti, Michel Henrard, Werner Kerschenbauer, Marjo Kasanko, Pol Marquer, Johanna Pleijte, Johan Selenius, Vincent Tronet and Ute Walsemann (Eurostat, Unit E.1., Agriculture and fisheries)
Focus on gender statistics: Denis Leythienne and Piotr Ronkowski (Eurostat, Unit F.3., Labour market)
Focus on quality of life: Didier Dupré, Georgiana Ivan and Agnieszka Litwinska (Eurostat, Unit F.4., Quality of life)
Focus on European cities: Filipe Alves, Teodóra Brandmüller and Kristina Dourmashkin (Eurostat, Unit E.4., Regional statistics and geographical information)
We are also grateful to:
the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission, particularly the German and French translation units;
the Publications Office of the European Union, and in particular Georgia Anargyrou-Hahn, Unit B.2., Publications
The online-only publication Europe in figures - Eurostat yearbook presents a comprehensive selection of statistical data on Europe. It may be viewed as an introduction to European statistics; it provides essential reading for those wishing to discover the vast range of data that is freely available on Eurostat’s website at:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat.
Thematic, temporal and spatial coverage
With more than 450 statistical tables and figures as well as occasional maps, the Eurostat yearbook covers the following areas: population; living conditions; health; education and training; the labour market; economy and finance; international trade; agriculture, forestry and fisheries; industry and services; innovation and information society; the environment; energy; and transport.
Most data in the Eurostat yearbook cover the latest available decade (eleven values), for example from 2003 to 2013.
Statistics are presented for the European Union (EU), the euro area (EA) and individual EU Member States, while some indicators are also provided for non-member countries, such as the EFTA member states and candidate countries to the EU, China, Japan and the United States (subject to availability). Indicators for the two potential EU candidates (Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo[1]) are included in the updates from July 2014 onwards, when data are available.
Rolling update
There are around 85 articles that compose the Eurostat yearbook and these are updated throughout the year on a rolling basis depending upon major updates of data becoming available. Most of the articles are updated once a year, although some are updated twice a year and a few (typically based on data from biennial or triennial data sources) only once every two or three years.
Format and language versions
Since 2013 the Eurostat yearbook has no longer been available as a printed or PDF publication. In order to present the latest data the yearbook is made available on Statistics Explained (part of Eurostat’s website), as the online-only Eurostat yearbook.
The online-only Eurostat yearbook is available in English, German and French. As the original articles are drafted in English and the translations take some time, the German and French versions of each article are not always as up-to-date as the English version.
In addition, a selection of 17 main statistical articles from the Eurostat yearbook are available in Statistics Explained in 18 or 19 additional languages (besides German, English and French): Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian and Swedish. Croatian translations have become gradually available from November 2014 onwards.
Data extraction period
See the top of each article.
Editor-in-Chief
Jukka Piirto
Eurostat, Unit B4 — Dissemination'
Editors
Annika Johansson and Helene Strandell
Eurostat, Unit B4 — Dissemination
Contact details
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Content production
The content of the Eurostat yearbook is produced by Eurostat and Informa sàrl (Giovanni Albertone, Simon Allen, Andrew Redpath)
More information
Please consult the Eurostat internet site (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat)
Notes
- ↑ Kosovo under UN Security Council Resolution 1244: This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.