1. Yearbook: overview of ESS practices
Dissemination Working Group
Eurostat – Unit B4 Digital dissemination – Jukka PIIRTO

2. Data collection & results
Method: Web search
Yearbook identification/traits
Title: Keywords ("statistical yearbook", "annual abstract", "statistical abstract") + country name + year
Size: 200–1000 pages, typically 500–700 pages
Author/publisher: NSI or international organisation
Content: tables + definitions (minimum), charts & maps, descriptive/analytical text, data sources & methodology, policy/societal context, static/dynamic infographics; promo video
Method: Disclaimer: I may not have found everything. I think, however, that the big picture is good enough.
Results: No surprises in YB identification/traits
Title: "Abstract" in title: UK, USA, Cyprus, Malta
Size: Is 1000 pages a psychological limit?

3. Data collection & results
Yearbook identification/traits (cont'd)
Geographical coverage: Regional (sub-national), national, international
Language versions: national language(s) + English, at least partially
Price: PDF free, printed not

4. Data collection & results
Yearbook evolution
ICT development has questioned the role of these once venerated flagship publications: Are they dinosaurs?
13/33 = 39 % of ESS members have discontinued their yearbook (abruptly or gradually), but the majority of 61 % continue
30/33 = 91 % of ESS members have a reduced size (typically 50–100 p.) paper/PDF general overview publication (19 countries have titled it <Country name> in figures)
Evolution: Interesting
Next year Eurostat will discontinue its yearbook, 36 %  39 %
Reduced size publication: All but Germany, Ireland and UK; Sweden: web publication, though

5. Note: Different years, especially Belgium (1994) and Malta (2000).

6. Way forward, yearbook type information presentation options
traditional paper/PDF yearbook and/or
reduced size (typically 50–100 p.)
paper/PDF publication of the type
<Country name> in figures and/or
web publication (possibly interactive)

7. Extracts of some ESS countries' reduced size publications
short text + text boxes
small tables
lots of visual elements
simple graphs and maps
infographics
photos
Eurostat plans for 2018 will be dealt with in Pascal Wolff's presentation

14. Thank you! Comments, questions?