Methodology

The three explanatory notes below provide details on the Eurostat methodology used in assessing different aspects of the EU progress towards the SDGs:

• the  assessment of indicator trends against SDG-related EU objectives and targets outlines the data sources and describes the method used to evaluate indicators movement towards or away from the sustainable development objective as well as the speed of this movement; 
• the  methodology for assessing the EU Member States status and progress towards SDGs defines the main statistical terms and the approach used to calculate the Member States status and progress scores towards reaching the SDGs. It also outlines the adjustments that were made for the latest year evaluation exercise in cases when country data are not available for at least two-thirds of the indicators at goal level; 
• the  data and methods for measuring consumption-related spillover effects outlines a set of methodologies used for measuring consumption-induced spillover effects.