Eurostat´s mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical service. Accordingly, quality considerations play a central role with regard to Eurostat corporate management as well as our day-to-day statistical operations.

With the adoption of the European Statistics Code of Practice (pdf - 440 kB), Eurostat and the statistical authorities of the EU-Member States have committed themselves to an encompassing approach towards high quality statistics, which is based on a common European Statistical System definition of quality in statistics. The quality is aimed at all relevant areas from the institutional environment, through the statistical production processes to the outputs of the official European statistics.