The podcast series 'Stats in a Wrap' intends to attract a wide European audience of podcast fans who wish to be informed and entertained by the world of statistics. In this episode we are talking about living in the EU’s countryside. Rural areas are often misunderstood. For some, they're romantic havens from the stress of city life. For others, they're tough places to get work, healthcare and education. So, what do data reveal about rural living in the EU?
Jan 27, 2025
In this episode, Jonathan Elliott discusses with European experts the EU gender-based violence survey, a major project to assess the prevalence and nature of this hidden crime. The experts will shed light on the legal background and definitions, the challenges of data collection, and on the importance of raising public awareness to effectively tackle gender-based violence.
Nov 20, 2024
In this episode we are talking about how people use Eurostat data and products in their daily work, and statistics can be made more engaging by complementing it with timely, granular data sources. Laia Guinovart from the Eurostat user support team, Tatjana von Bonkewitz, a teacher in Luxembourg, Sérgio Guerreiro from Turis-mo de Portugal, and Patrick van Egmond from Lux Mobility discuss this topic with Jonathan Elliott. He highlights how these professionals from diverse backgrounds leverage Euro...
Oct 16, 2024
In this episode we are talking about innovation, showcasing different ways of using artificial intelligence. We will learn how Norwegian statisticians and the public will soon get useful information easily and quickly with the help of chatbots.
Sep 16, 2024
In this episode we are talking about innovation, showcasing different aspects of inventiveness behind the scenes of the ESS innovation agenda. We will show how producing stats is being helped by technology, especially artificial intelligence.
Jul 16, 2024
In this episode we are in political mood and contemplating the meaning of truth. We talk about the world of political misinformation, news reporting, fact-checking and building trust in data.
Jun 13, 2024
In this episode we talk about statistics and maps - the things we navigate when we drive and carry in our pockets on our phones. Maps are powerful tools for data visualization, particularly in statistics, and they can translate immensely complex numerical data into strikingly clear visualizations to give us an instantly understandable snapshot.
Apr 23, 2024
In this episode we talk about statistics and maps - the things we navigate when we drive and carry in our pockets on our phones. Maps are powerful tools for data visualization, particularly in statistics, and they can translate immensely complex numerical data into strikingly clear visualizations to give us an instantly understandable snapshot.
Mar 18, 2024
In this episode we talk about the ‘Key figures on Europe 2023’ publica-tion. An emblem of the shifting trends in how we view stats at different times. What's key this year, and what was key last year? What does that tell us about our evolving attitudes to the statistics that surround us?
Dec 18, 2023
In this episode we talk about statistical literacy and how the EU's young people are learning to love and understand stats as never before. We will also find out how experts help us decode and understand the numbers and how to teach statistics to help children develop a critical thinking.
Oct 16, 2023
In this episode we talk about quality. Easy to spot in everyday things like food and clothing. But how about statistics? Eurostat has a team dedicated to this topic, and we'll hear how Eurostat with its European Statistics Code of Practice has set the standards for the entire European Statistical System, and how they monitor and implement it.
Sep 18, 2023
The podcast series 'Stats in a Wrap' intends to attract a wide European audience of podcast fans who wish to be informed and entertained by the world of statistics. In this episode we talk about European neighbourhood and EU enlargement countries. A country who wants to join the EU must show it can meet a lot of criteria. It must also prove its excellence in one of the key areas – statistics. We explain how cooperating and developing strong ties with neighbourhood statisticians plays int...
Jun 28, 2023
The podcast series “Stats in a Wrap” intends to attract a wide European audience of podcast fans who are interested to be informed and entertained by the world of statistics. In this episode we talk about what Eurostat has discovered about our constantly changing relationship with communication technology, the internet, web, phones, tablets, and computers. The EU is determined to raise the level of our skills and access to digital technology, and one of its most powerful tools to measure its pro...
May 10, 2023
The podcast series “Stats in a Wrap” intends to attract a wide European audience of podcast fans who are interested to be informed and entertained by the world of statistics. In this episode, we talk about experimental statistics - statistics that use innovative approaches or technologies for data collection. They bring more timeliness to our data collections, but what are the challenges we face when creating new ways of collecting statistical data? And can we trust experimental statistics?
Feb 21, 2023
The podcast series “Stats in a Wrap” intends to attract a wide European audience of podcast fans who are interested to be informed and entertained by the world of statistics. In this episode, we talk about the EU's 2020 Agricultural Census, a survey so big it can only happen every 10 years. It involves quizzing 9 million farmers and this time it had to be done in the middle of a pandemic. Helena Ramos from Eurostat and Johanna Slaets from Statistics Austria discuss the topic with Jonathan El...
Dec 07, 2022
The podcast series “Stats in a Wrap” intends to attract a wide European audience of podcast fans who are interested to be informed and entertained by the world of statistics. In this episode we talk about the zoomed-in world of regional data which give a fascinating insight to the lives of 447 million people in the EU. These range from life expectancy to employment, from broadband speeds to transport links. Bianka Fohgrub from Eurostat and Paolo Veneri from the OECD discuss the topic with Jonath...
Nov 22, 2022
The podcast series “Stats in a Wrap” intends to attract a wide European audience of podcast fans who are interested to be informed and entertained by the world of statistics. In this episode we talk about the work of the statisticians and data scientists at Eurostat and their jobs and how they master and harmonize all the data from 27 EU Member States before they got presented to policymakers, academics and journalists. John Verrinder and Lourdes Prado from Eurostat discuss the topic with Jonath...
Oct 19, 2022
In the sixth episode, Madeleine Mahovsky from Eurostat and Julian Prime from the International Energy Agency talk with Jonathan Elliott about how the renewable energy is doing in Europe and the EU’s ambition to become the world’s first carbon-neutral economy.
Sep 14, 2022
In the fifth episode, Tim Allen from Eurostat, Glen Campbell from the Publications Office and Joanna Karlowska-Pik, a professor from Poland, talk with Jonathan Elliott about how secondary-school students can participate in the European Statistics Competition, the criteria for creating a successful video and what challenges the creators face. Jonathan also speaks to the winning teams from Slovenia, Bulgaria and Italy to get first-hand experience and advice.
Aug 08, 2022
In the fourth episode, Paul Konijn from Eurostat and Prof Ludwig von Auer from the University of Trier talk with Jonathan Elliott about what exactly is inflation, how do we calculate it and how do countries respond to it.
Jul 11, 2022
In the third episode, Anna Martino from Eurostat and Niall O’Higgins, an expert from the International Labour Organisation, talk with Jonathan Elliott about how the COVID pandemic affected the employment of young people in Europe.
Jun 20, 2022
In the second episode, Oscar Gomez from Eurostat and Ioannis Bakas, an expert from the European Environment Agency talk with Jonathan Elliott about waste to figure out what's really going on when it comes to recycling our waste in Europe.
May 09, 2022
The pilot episode raises the question how COVID has changed our travelling habits which the host of the series, Jonathan Elliot, explores together with the Eurostat expert Christophe Demunter as well as Ulf Sonntag from the NIT.
Apr 07, 2022
