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Eurostat
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Eurostat, or the European Statistical Office (also DG ESTAT), is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, based in Luxembourg City. Eurostat's main responsibilities are to provide statistical information to the institutions of the European Union (EU) and to promote the harmonisation of statistical methods across its member states and candidates for accession as well as European Free Trade Area countries.
Key facts
- Government agency.name
- Eurostat
- Government agency.type
- Directorate-General
- Government agency.logo
- Eurostat Newlogo.png
- Government agency.agency_type
- Statistical office
- Government agency.image
- Stadtteilzentrum Kirchberg, rue Alphonse Weicker - 2006.jpg
- Government agency.headquarters
- Kirchberg District Centre, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
- Government agency.chief1_name
- Mariana Kotzeva
- Government agency.chief1_position
- (Director-General)
- Government agency.parent_department
- European Commission
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Government
- Founded
- 1953
- Location
- Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- 20th century
- 21st century
- List of Directors-General
- Operations
- Organisation
- Regulations
- Statistical work
- General statistical activities
- Geographical scope
- Access to Eurostat statistics
- Locations
- See also
- References
- External links
Eurostat, or the European Statistical Office (also DG ESTAT), is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, based in Luxembourg City. Eurostat's main responsibilities are to provide statistical information to the institutions of the European Union (EU) and to promote the harmonisation of statistical methods across its member states and candidates for accession as well as European Free Trade Area countries.
The partnership of Eurostat and the national organisations that cooperate with it is referred to as the European Statistical System, a term enshrined in EU legislation since 2009.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eurostat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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