Changes in official statistics were the topic of discussion of the heads of European statistical offices

CBS to host DGINS conference in 2025

The regular Conference of Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes (DGINS) took place on 23 and 24 October in Tallinn and was attended by Lidija Brković, Director General of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics, Ivana Aljinović, Secretary to the Director General’s Office, Marija Kamenski, Head of the International Relations Department, Edita Omerzo, Director of the Spatial Statistics Directorate, and Mirna Čolić, senior adviser in the International Relations Department.

The theme of this year's conference was driving changes in official statistics. In the modern era of artificial intelligence and the emergence of new channels for interaction with users, the question arises of how to strategically balance between the improvement of the range of complementary services provided by statistical offices and the basic mission of the producers of official statistics, what challenges do national statistical offices face and how to respond to them. With this in mind, new data services that will meet new stakeholder needs and new trends were discussed as well as new channels for interaction with users of new data services.

The Director General gave a speech at the conference on the future of tourism statistics in Europe and announced in her presentation that next year the Croatian Bureau of Statistics will have the honour of hosting the DGINS conference, which will be held in October 2025 in Split. She pointed out that the future of tourism statistics will be discussed at the conference in Split, especially in the context of sustainability, innovation and modernization of data, and Split, as a historical city on the Adriatic coast, is an excellent location for discussing this important topic that has a great influence on the European economy, and especially Croatia.

Not only was the DGINS conference held in Tallinn, but also the meeting of the European Statistical System Committee on 24 and 25 October 2024, where, in addition to voting on proposals for regulations and implementing acts, and submitting reports on the activities of the European Statistical System, the third round of expert assessment of compliance of national statistical offices with the European Statistics Code of Practice was mentioned as well as the theme of the DGINS 2025 conference.

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