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

2. 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
User Support Workshop

3. 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
User Support Workshop

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

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

6. 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?
User Support Workshop