On August 1, 2025, President Trump fired the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and claimed that the agency's data were "rigged." In the aftermath, measures of economic policy uncertainty rose sharply, consistent with the idea that reduced trust in official data increases...

The She Figures 2024 Policy Report complements the She Figures 2024 main study by providing an in-depth analysis of key issues relating to gender equality in research and innovation (R&I). While the main study presents comprehensive gender statistics in R&I, the Policy Report expands on these...

The She Figures Handbook (2024) provides methodological guidance on the calculation of indicators included in the She Figures 2024 publication. It is intended to strengthen the capacity of stakeholders to systematically produce meaningful, systematic data on gender in research and innovation....

Key figures on the EU in the world provides a statistical portrait of the European Union in relation to other parts of the world. It's structured into 3 chapters: people and society, the economy and trade, and the environment and natural resources. This publication complements 2 of Eurostat's...

Key figures on the EU in the world provides a statistical portrait of the European Union in relation to other parts of the world. It's structured into 3 chapters: people and society, the economy and trade, and the environment and natural resources. This publication complements 2 of Eurostat's...

The Statistical Requirements Compendium (SRC), published by Eurostat, serves as a reference document for the EU acquis in statistics. It summarises the key reference information for European statistical production, taking into account new legislation and other developments relevant for European...

Spatial unit roots can lead to spurious regression results. We present a brief overview of the methods developed in M¨uller and Watson (2024) to test for and correct for spatial unit roots. We also introduce a suite of Stata commands (-spur-) implementing these techniques. Our commands exactly...

In September 2025, an assessment was undertaken of the data quality of the public sector debt statistics (PSDS) of Mauritius against the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for PSDS. The mission was undertaken as part of a project to strengthen the quality of public sector debt in...

This report discusses the findings and recommendations of a diagnostic assessment of the quality of public sector debt statistics (PSDS) of Mauritius based on the IMF’s Data Quality Assessment Framework (DQAF) for PSDS. The assessment was undertaken in September 2025 as part of an...

The present 2025 annual report focuses on selected issues that are of relevance and concern to the production of European statistics and have implications for the implementation of the European Statistics Code of Practice (ESCoP) in the European Statistical System (ESS). These issues pertain to...