About DGINS
DGINS Conference is the most important forum in the European Union for exchanging views about the future and development of the European Statistical System (ESS).
The first DGINS meeting was held in Luxembourg in 1953. Nowadays the DGINS Conference is held once a year in one of the Member States with the aim of discussing topics related to the statistical programme and current strategic issues in statistics. Around 120 people, including the Presidents of the National Statistical Offices, representatives of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, participate in this meeting. It takes place back to back with the meeting of the ESSC and the Partnership Group.
The present mandate for the DGINS Conference has been adopted by the Statistical Programme Committee at its meeting on 22–23 November 2000, indicating the objectives, tasks and functions of the Conference. According to this document, the specific objectives of the DGINS Conference are defined as:
- organization and management of statistical work within the ESS;
- identifying and discussing future needs for statistics in a strategic context;
- pursuit of existing priority needs that are not being met;
- presentation of the statistical system of the host country.
Following topics have been covered since 2007:
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2016 Vienna | Statistics on income, consumption and wealth / Managing a modern NSI in the 21st century |
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2015 Lisbon | Risks to the ESS Vision 2020 implementation / Indicators for decision making and monitoring |
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2014 Riga | Implementation of the ESS Vision 2020 / Towards global business statistics |
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2013 Scheveningen | ESS future and how we get there / New round of Peer reviews / Big Data |
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2012 Prague | Labelling of European statistics and access to micro-data / Meeting new needs on statistics for green economy / Coordination of statistics and geospatial information |
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2011 Wiesbaden | Next generation of the Code of Practice – five years after Cracow / New conceptual design for household and social statistics |
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2010 Sofia | Measuring progress, well-being and sustainable development |
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2009 Malta | Migration – Statistical mainstreaming |
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2008 Vilnius | Reduction of the administrative burden through official Statistics |
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2007 Budapest | The ESS response to globalization – are we doing enough? |
