The Graduate Institute has officially been awarded accreditation by Eurostat. Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics at the European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Eurostat consolidates data supplied by national statistical institutes and other competent bodies of Member States and ensures their comparability, using harmonised methodology. It offers researchers, enterprises and decision-makers commensurate, reliable and objective figures on a changing Europe.

Accreditation means researchers from the Graduate Institute can now get access to anonymised datasets which are provided in nine primary categories: 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. Microdata, which in principle allows the identification of the statistical unit (e.g. a person in the labour force survey or a company for innovation statistics), is treated as strictly confidential.

For further information, please refer to Eurostat’s “Statistics Explained”, to the Eurostat dissemination database, or contact Dominic Eggel at the Research Office.