Contributing to Statistics Explained is normally reserved for Eurostat staff only. However, the right to create, insert or modify content can also be granted to three categories of externals:
- staff from other European Commission directorates and agencies
- staff from NSIs
- external contractors
The short and simple procedure to obtain editing rights is explained below.
General principles
Statistics Explained uses the European Commission's user authentication service (or EU Login), to control access. European Commission staff (including Eurostat employees) have a 7-letter username and a corresponding password also used for SYSPER and other Commission applications.
All staff can use this EU Login username and password to log in to Statistics Explained and thereby create a Statistics Explained username.
Having a username and using this to log in, however, does not automatically confer editing rights in Statistics Explained. One further step is needed: a Statistics Explained administrator has to add the username to the user group 'alloweduser'.
Below is the procedure to register in Statistics Explained, via logging in, and then obtaining editing rights, first for Eurostat staff, and then for the three categories of externals (non-Eurostat European Commission personnel, NSI staff and external contractors).
Please note that all staff changes must be reported to the SE team so that access rights can be removed.
Eurostat staff
Request editing rights:
- click button 'log in' on the top right of any Statistics Explained page
- enter your EU Login username and password
- send an e-mail to the SE team estat-statistics-explained@ec.europa.eu requesting access rights
- once granted, you will receive a notification e-mail and will be able to view and edit draft Statistics Explained articles
Staff leaving Eurostat must inform the SE team so that access rights can be removed
European Commission staff (outside Eurostat)
Non-Eurostat European Commission staff can register in Statistics Explained in the same way as Eurostat staff, but are blocked from editing (staff leaving Eurostat for another part of the Commission must inform the SE team so that access rights can be removed).
A Commission staff member needing to edit in Statistics Explained, can obtain the right to do so by submitting a motivated request to estat-statistics-explained@ec.europa.eu (also informing the Eurostat unit responsible for the page(s) to be edited - and expected to be involved in this editing).
NSI staff
NSI staff can obtain editing rights in Statistics Explained, in the context of a common project such as the ESS glossary following this procedure:
- click button 'log in' on the top right of any Statistics Explained page
- you will be redirected to the 'European Commission's user authentication service', EU Login for short; enter EU Login username and password if you already have one; if not:
- to register in EU Login, go to EU Login and complete the form
- Please note that EU Login only allows one username to be associated with a given e-mail address, so you cannot create a username if you already have one linked to your e-mail address, so you have to use the existing one to log in.
- choose a password;
- complete the log in procedure to Statistics Explained using the EU Login username and password
- inform the Statistics Explained team (estat-statistics-explained@ec.europa.eu) that you have registered in Statistics Explained and confirm your username, so we can assign the necessary editing rights
- next time you log in to Statistics Explained via redirect to EU Login (https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/cas/login EU Login) and EU Login username and password, you will be able to edit in Statistics Explained
Once the project has concluded, the SE team must be informed so that access rights can be removed
External contractors
External contractors can obtain editing rights in Statistics Explained, temporarily for the time of the contract, following this procedure:
- click button 'log in' on the top right of any Statistics Explained page
- you will be redirected to the 'European Commission's user authentication service', EU Login for short; enter EU Login username and password if you already have one; if not:
- to register, go to EU Login and complete the form
- Please note that EU Login only allows one username to be associated with a given e-mail address, so you cannot create a username if you already have one linked to your e-mail address, so you have to use the existing one to log in.
- choose a password;
- complete the logging in to Statistics Explained using the EU Login username and password
- inform the Statistics Explained team (estat-statistics-explained@ec.europa.eu) that you have registered in Statistics Explained and confirm your username, so we can assign the necessary editing rights
- next time you log in to Statistics Explained via redirect to (https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/cas/login EU Login) with username and password, you will be able to edit in Statistics Explained
Once the contract has terminated, the Eurostat author unit is responsible for informing the SE team so that access rights can be removed