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The Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) is the statistical arm of the European Commission, producing data for the European Union and promoting harmonisation of statistical methods across the member states of the European Union.
Organisation
Eurostat is a General Service Directorate-General of the European Commission, headed by a Director-General. Six directors and a chief adviser are responsible for different sectors of Eurostat activities.
Its current Director-General is Hervé Carré.
Roles
Eurostat publishes economic statistics and statistics on economic and monetary convergence, trade statistics, business statistics, social and regional statistics, agricultural, environmental and energy statistics. The Eurostat Yearbook provides a wealth of harmonised and comparable data on the European Union, the euro zone and the EU Member States, with additional statistics related to major non-European countries.
Three of its particularly significant roles are:
Eurostat's website offers free access to download nearly all of its data and electronic publications grouped into the following themes:
- General and regional statistics
- Economy and finance
- Population and social conditions
- Industry, trade and services
- Agriculture and fisheries
- External trade
- Transport
- Environment and energy
- Science and technology
The paper versions of some publications are still priced and can be ordered via the EU bookshop.
See also
External links
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