Events
2025
ESAC-NUCs workshop ‘Statistical priorities in the European context: user perspectives and consultation mechanisms’
26 and 27 March 2025 in Athens (Greece)
This year the ESAC-NUCs workshop was co-organised with and hosted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), with the support of Eurostat.
The main purpose of the conference was to highlight the mechanisms for prioritizing the ever-changing needs of users for statistical information at European and national level, and to further foster relations with national user councils, with the aim of promoting and broadening user participation in the shaping of future thematic statistical priorities.
All presentations are available for consultation.
For more information, you may visit the ELSTAT website.
2024
Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders (CESS)
The conference theme was ‘Beyond GDP agenda: past, present, visions for the future’. It took place in Paris, France, on 15 and 16 October 2024. The event attracted more than 170 participants presenting a wide range of statistical users.
The conference focused on the many initiatives that have been taken to enrich the economic indicators and get a broader view of well-being and its sustainability. The agenda covered, amongst others, the following broad themes:
- measuring the cost of greening the economy
- distributive issues
- the value of non-market activities
- national accounts and social welfare
- the digital economy
- new sources of data.
Under the aegis of European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC), the 2024 edition was jointly organised by Eurostat, the European Central Bank, the French national statistical office (INSEE), and the Banque de Franc, with the participation of the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and institutions playing crucial role in the statistical dialogue at national level in France (CNIS, CASD).
Presentations are available on the conference website.
European Statistics Day 2024
The 9th European Statistics Day was celebrated under the following motto issued by ESAC: ‘Official Statistics, a window for understanding society’.
The statement for the 2024 European Statistics Day was adopted during ESAC 44th meeting on 13-14 June 2024.
For more information, consult the European Statistics Day web page.
2023
European Statistics Day
ESAC adopted a statement for the 2023 European Statistics Day during its 40th meeting on 27 June 2023.
ESAC and National Users Councils (NUCs) seminar
The event took place on 28 and 29 November 2023 in Brussels. The presentations’ of the participants to the 2023 seminar are available for consultation.
2022
European Statistics Day: ESAC workshop on 20 October
The European Statistics Day 2022 was celebrated at the opening of the Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders (CESS) on 20 October 2022 in Rome.
The objective of the conference is to strengthen the dialogue between European methodologists, producers and users of European statistics by identifying user needs, best production practices, innovative methods of producing official statistics based on statistics, data science and artificial intelligence, and based on new methodological ideas for data collection and analysis.
ESAC initiated the celebrations of the 2022 European Statistics Day by issuing a statement in connection with the CESS 2022 motto on the need to use statistics to better understand and connect to society and to search for truth.
2021
European Statistics Day
‘Statistics, a vaccine to protect democracy and combat the virus of disinformation’ - virtual workshop co-organised by Eurostat, the European Central Bank, and STATEC.
2019
European Statistics Day
‘Better data. Better lives.’ / ESSEC, 22 October 2019, Paris
2018
Seminar: New perspectives and priorities for EU 2030 indicators
Department of Statistical Sciences Sapienza University of Rome, 8 June 2018, Rome
2017
Seminar: When facts count
12 June 2017, Statistics Finland, Helsinki
ESAC organised the seminar ‘When facts count’ discussing the role of data in societal development, official statistics as an independent and reliable source of information and cooperation between data users when developing statistics.
European Statistics Day
Seminar: ‘The value of Official Statistics as a Public Good’, organised by ESAC in collaboration with the Portugese Statistical Society and the Portugese Statistical Institute, 20 October 2017, Lisbon.
The European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC), the Portuguese Statistical Society, and Statistics Portugal, with the support of Eurostat, organised a conference on ‘The value of official statistics as a public good’, in Lisbon on the occasion of the European Statistics Day 20 October 2017.
With this initiative the organisers intended to celebrate the European Statistics Day, bringing together producers and users of official statistics in an open debate among all stakeholders.
2016
Workshop: Indicators - user requirements, methodological issues and communication challenges
Statistics Netherlands, 10 May 2016, Den Haag
2013
Workshop: Measuring and comparing the quality of life within Europe
Committee of Regions, 24-25 January 2013, Brussels