Archive:Tutorial:Dedicated section versus Statistics Explained

This tutorial provides an answer to questions often raised by Eurostat author/production units on the distinction between dedicated sections and Statistics Explained:

• which information should be disseminated via a dedicated section on the Eurostat portal and which via Statistics Explained?
• what are the differences and similarities between these two dissemination channels?
• how should they be interlinked?

The answers, elaborated below, can be summarised as follows:

• a dedicated section is a mini-portal for a specific statistical theme or topic, essentially a set of links to content stored elsewhere;
• Statistics Explained is an online publication platform for all published content (which may but does not need to be also available sometimes but not necessarily published on paper too)can but need not be a

Dedicated sections

• quite specific and ad hoc (temporar), list of dedicated sections changes often
• no content except brief introductions
• linking to content elsewhere

• data in database, 'most popular' or main tables
• metadata (esms file, methodological manuals, ...)
• Statistics Explained: deep link!
• data and metadata in database, PDF, Statistics Explained, ...)

Differences and similarities

• very specific and ad hoc list of dedicated section, can and does change fairly frequently versus

Cross-linking

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