Published for the first time in 2006, this publication presents data concerning a number of fields in Turkey - from population and migration, demography, life satisfaction to health and social protection, social security, education and culture, tourism, justice, election, labour force, income and living conditions, consumption expenditures, agriculture, environment, energy, transportation and communication, business statistics, labour input indicators, science and technology, foreign trade, prices and inflation, confidence indices, national accounts, money and banking, and finance.

It also includes recent data comparison with the previous years enriched with graphs and pictures.

Just published - temporary agents selection (ref COM/TA/ESTAT/18/AD8)  for Eurostat in national accounts, balance of payments, prices and excessive deficit procedure/government finance statistics

The Commission is currently organising a selection procedure for Eurostat in the domain of national accounts, balance of payments, prices and excessive deficit procedure/government finance statistics in order to set up a reserve list of temporary agents at grade AD8.

Deadline for submission of applications is 16 August 2018.

EURONA is an open access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal dedicated to National Accounts and Macroeconomic Indicators. EURONA aims at providing a platform for researchers, scholars, producers and users of macroeconomic statistics to exchange their research findings.
The first EURONA issue of 2018 was published on the Eurostat website on 3 July and contains the following articles:
•    “R&D capitalisation: where did we go wrong?”, by Mark de Haan and Joseph Haynes
•    “How to measure hedonic property price indexes better”, by Mick Silver
•    “Mixed-form indices: a study of their properties”, by Bert M. Balk
•    “Dynamic pricing as a challenge for consumer price statistics”, by Christian Blaudow and Florian Burg

In addition, EURONA pays tribute to T. Peter Hill (1929-2017), who made numerous
contributions to national accounts and price statistics during his career, most notably as the
driving force behind the SNA 1993.

Paper copies of the journal will be available in a few weeks.

The NTTS series, New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) is an international biennial scientific conference series, organised by Eurostat, on new techniques and methods for official statistics and the impact of new technologies on statistical collection, production and dissemination systems.

The purpose of the conference is both to allow the presentation of results from currently ongoing research and innovation projects in official statistics, and to stimulate and facilitate the preparation of new innovative projects (by encouraging the exchange of views and co-operation between researchers - including the possible building of research consortia) with the aim of enhancing the quality and usefulness of official statistics and to prepare activities related to research in statistics within the European Framework Programme for Research and Development (Horizon 2020).

The NTTS 2019 is free of charge, offering publication possibilities after the successful acceptance of the abstract. The submitted abstracts will undergo a double-blinded peer-review by the members of the NTTS 2019 scientific committee. The NTTS 2019 conference will take place from 12 to 14 March 2019 in Brussels (with satellite events taking place on 11 and 15 March).

The NTTS 2019 Scientific Committee welcomes the submission of abstracts (2-4 pages) within all topics of relevance to the conference.

Please submit your ideas by 15 October 2018. Via:

Regional Development Composite Index

Competitiveness with the highest level of interregional disparity among the three components of regional development - 2016

The Regional Development Composite Index (ISDR) relies on a conceptual framework which benefits from a broad view of development that encompasses competitiveness, cohesion and environmental quality.

With the release of the 2016 results, Statistics Portugal continues the production cycle of ISDR’s version 2, comprising a data series for the 2011-2016 period, in line with the organization of the level 3 NUTS regions set by the Commission Regulation (EU) No. 868/2014, August 8 (NUTS-2013).

Summer school on Survey Research 2018 organized by Utrecht University (Department of Methodology and Statistics) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS, Department of Methodology)

Location: Utrecht University

- August, 20-24 (5 days):  Survey Research: Design, Implementation and Data Processing

Changes in technology and society strongly influence modern survey research. This course covers the essentials of modern survey analysis and estimation, and is organized by the Department of Methodology and Statistics (UU) in collaboration with Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Topics include state of the art survey design, questionnaire construction and testing, modes of and devices for data collection, data processing and survey analysis techniques, such as nonresponse analysis and scale and index construction and the use of administrative data. Best practice guidelines for phases of the survey from design to implementation, analysis and reporting will be discussed. International comparative and longitudinal surveys are included.

- August, 27-31 (5 days): Survey Research: Statistical Analysis and Estimation

The course is intended for advanced students and professionals in such fields as social and behavioral research, marketing, business, health sciences, and official statistics. Central to the course is survey quality and the reduction of Total Survey Error (coverage, sampling, nonresponse, adjustment, measurement error, and processing error). Participants will be presented with tools for detection and adjustment of such errors. Analysis methods are introduced using both SPSS and R. Topics include complex surveys, nonresponse adjustment, measurement error, analysis of incomplete data and advanced use of administrative data. Special attention will be given to the analysis of complex surveys that include weighting, stratification and design effects. This course is organized by the Department of Methodology and Statistics (UU) in collaboration with Statistics Netherlands (CBS). 

The Croatian Bureau of Statistics presents an infographic dedicated to the Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day celebrated today 27 June

According to the last available data, 99.7% of all business enteties in Croatia are small and medium-sized enterprises. 72.6% of all employed persons in Croatia are employed in small and medium-sized enterprises.