EFTA Statistical Office
The EFTA Statistical Office (ESO) was created as a liaison office between Eurostat and the EFTA national statistical institutes. ESO's main objective is to promote the full inclusion of the EFTA States in the European Statistical System (ESS), and thus provide harmonised and comparable statistics supporting the general cooperation process between EFTA and the EU within and outside the EEA Agreement. The cooperation also entails technical cooperation programmes with third countries and training of European statisticians.
ESO is located on the premises of Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in Luxembourg. It has five staff members: the Head of the Statistical Office, the Deputy Head, two assistants, and a trainee.
ESO News
- Iceland and Norway - living conditions 2008
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03-02-2010 : In 2008, Iceland and Norway had respectively an at-risk-of-poverty rate of 10% and 11%, while 17% of the EU27 population was below the threshold of poverty.
- EFTA countries' annual inflation rates 2009
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21-01-2010 : The latest Eurostat publication on inflation shows a continuous decrease in the annualized inflation rate for Iceland through year 2009 whilst for other EFTA countries the annual rates were rather stable. Switzerland showed negative price growth ...
- EFTA countries' GDP growth rate for the 3rd quarter 2009
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11-01-2010 : Norway and Switzerland showed a positive growth in GDP for the 3rd quarter 2009 whilst the GDP growth for Iceland was still negative
