Etienne Caruana served as Acting Director General of the National Statistics Office (NSO) of Malta since 2018 and was officially appointed as Director General on 7 May 2019.

Statistics Portugal launched a new project : STATSLAB - Statistics in development

Current Vacancy in Unit C4 ‘Price statistics; Purchasing power parities; Housing statistics’

Deadline for application: 25/07/2019

Turnover in the retail sector fell by 0.5% in nominal terms in March 2019 compared with the previous year. Seasonally adjusted, nominal turnover fell by 0.1% compared with the previous month. These are provisional findings from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

Real turnover in the retail sector also adjusted for sales days and holidays fell by 0.7% in March 2019 compared with the previous year. Real growth takes inflation into consideration. Compared with the previous month, real, seasonally adjusted retail trade turnover registered a decline of 0.2%.

Retail sector excluding service stations

Adjusted for sales days and holidays, the retail sector excluding service stations showed a 0.3% decrease in nominal turnover in March 2019 compared with March 2018 (in real terms –0.6%). Retail sales of food, drinks and tobacco registered an increase in nominal turnover of 0.5% (in real terms –0.4%), whereas the non-food sector registered a nominal negative of 0.5% (in real terms –0.4%).

Excluding service stations, the retail sector showed a seasonally adjusted stagnation in nominal turnover compared with the previous month (in real terms –0.2%). Retail sales of food, drinks and tobacco registered a plus of 0.3% (in real terms +0.3%). The non-food sector showed a minus of 0.3% (in real terms –0.5%).

Lidija Brković, the former Advisor in the Monetary and Financial Statistics Department of the Croatian National Bank, assumed the function of the Director General of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics on 1 April 2019. 

The Commission has adopted the Financing Decision and Work Programme 2019 for the implementation of the European statistical programme 2013-2020 on 14 February 2019.

Annex 1: Work Programme 2019 for the European Statistical Programme 2013-2020

Annex 2: Strategic Priorities

Annex 3: List of activities and outputs

Annex 4: Catalogue of statistical products

A  vacant Seconded National Expert post at Eurostat has just been published at Eurostat  - Directorate C: Macroeconomic statistics , Unit ESTAT.C.4: Price statistics. Purchasing power parities. Housing statistics

ESTAT unit C4 provides the official measures of inflation for the euro area and the EU, i.e. the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices, the House Price Index and the measures of price level comparisons across countries, i.e. Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) for 37 participating EU and non-EU countries. The unit is responsible for a high profile area and its teams work and deliver to tight deadlines.

The post is within the PPP team. Several PPP surveys are organised each year to collect prices for comparable products in all participating countries. These data are used by Eurostat to calculate annual PPPs, which are used for example to compare GDP per inhabitant for the countries concerned. The post involves tasks related to the co-ordination of PPP surveys, the calculation of PPPs, the management of contractors, the documentation of production processes and the quality control of PPPs. Most tasks are carried out within the PPP production environment which consists of purpose-built web tools managing a central database.

The post offers the opportunity to work closely with colleagues in national statistical offices, the OECD, the World Bank and Commission staff.

Candidates should send their application according to the Europass CV format in English, French or German only to the Permanent Representation / Diplomatic Mission to the EU of their country, which will forward the applications to the competent services of the Commission within the deadline fixed by the latter. Not respecting this procedure or deadlines will automatically invalidate the application.

Deadline for applications is 25 March 2019.

See the full notice here