Introduction Recent developments at Eurostat John Allen Dissemination Unit, Eurostat User Support Workshop, 14 February 2011

Key themes for Eurostat the Vision Communication Vision Infrastructure Projects all work influenced by Vision high priority to cross-domain coordination support for EU strategic planning Europe 2020 macroeconomic coordination a new role: auditing EDP data Greek crisis Euro crisis 14.2.2011 User Support Workshop

Key themes for dissemination (1) Sponsorship on Communication Eurostat dissemination strategy + roadmap ESS dissemination and communication strategy Re-use of data Google open data and the Eurostat Hackday Microdata for researchers no more charging after 1 April 14.2.2011 User Support Workshop

Key themes for dissemination (2) new data dissemination chain website Statistics Explained transformation of the user support network 14.2.2011 User Support Workshop

Organisational changes new organigramme July 2010 a laboratory for the Vision new units for EDP auditing staff redeployments generally changes in D4 14.2.2011 User Support Workshop

Ideas on user feedback Support centres are in any case a major source of feedback from users Some ideas to explore full-scale surveys within countries/language areas surveys via website exploitation of regular reporting: can we construct new indicators by combining information on user support requests with information on web traffic? 14.2.2011 User Support Workshop