ESGAB annual report 2017 : ninth annual report by the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board to the European Parliament and the Council on the implementation of the European statistics code of practice by Eurostat and the European statistical system as a whole

This year's report focuses on the importance of good governance to maintain and increase trust in official statistics, accessing administrative and privately-held data, and the practical challenges of coordinating national statistical systems (NSSs). It further reviews how well Eurostat and national statistical systems are implementing improvement actions arising from recommendations in ESGAB's previous reports and in the reports from the last round of peer reviews. The report also looks back over the first nine years of ESGAB's existence, describing how ESGAB's role has evolved over this period, the issues which the Board has raised and the lessons learned for the future.