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Luxemburg
September 4, 2003
Eurostat, the
Statistical Office of the European Communities in Luxembourg,
today publishes the 8th edition of its Yearbook.
The Eurostat Yearbook 2003
is a wide-ranging statistical guide that provides a good
understanding of the major economic and social developments in
the EU. It covers the period 1991 to 2001.
This new edition of the Yearbook
is more user-friendly. A new structure and table of contents
make it easy to find one's way through European statistics,
rewritten introductions explain the relevance of the data, help
in interpreting them and outline other Eurostat sources. For the
first time, the Yearbook is a combined product consisting of a
book and a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains more than 1000
statistical tables and graphs, a selection of which is presented
in the paper publication. Hyperlinks on the CD-ROM lead to
further reading either on the Eurostat Internet site or on web
sites of other General Directorates of the European Commission.
All tables on Structural Indicators2 are now marked
with an icon and linked to the respective Eurostat web page.
The Yearbook covers the EU
and the 15 Member States, the eurozone, as well as
the principal economic partners of the EU, wherever the data are
comparable: member countries of the European Economic Area
(EEA) or the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the
United States, Canada and Japan. Finally, a
section is devoted to the Candidate Countries.
The 2003 Yearbook has four
chapters. The first gives an overview of Eurostat's services,
shows the position of the EU in the world when compared
to the USA and Japan, and puts the Candidate
Countries in the spotlight. The chapter "People in Europe"
is devoted to social aspects, such as population, health,
education, work and households. The third chapter takes a bird's
view of “Economy and Ecology” in the EU and the Member
States, while the fourth chapter “Entrepreneurial
activities” focuses on specific sectors, such as business
sectors, science and technology, as well as agriculture. As in
previous versions, there is a useful glossary at the end.
Eurostat is at
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