We celebrate the European Statistics Day
During the year we celebrate many international days with which we try to draw attention to important socially responsible topics. However, one date in particular stands out because it aims at raising awareness of the importance and role of official statistics in society and to promoting the value of official statistics. This is the European Statistics Day, which is celebrated on 20 October for the ninth year in a row.
This year's slogan "Official statistics - a window for understanding society" excellently reflects what we are trying to achieve within the Croatian Bureau of Statistics - to collect, process and release the latest data that will help determine the real situation in society, monitor social changes and thus be the basis for planning and making appropriate and reasoned decisions. In order to fulfil this task throughout the year, we are perfecting existing tools
and projects and developing new ones.
As the theme suggests, statistics are a window into understanding society, and our website is a window into all our activities. They were modernised in 2022 and are divided into
dzs.gov.hr, a page containing information from the scope of the Bureau, and the
dissemination portal, which contains data from various statistical domains.
What do they have in common? Striving to meet the needs of our users. Therefore, we have developed
Dashboard, an interactive data visualisation tool that allows a user to view basic indicators from nine statistical domains in the form of tables and interactive graphs over the past ten years.
Aware that we can bring some topics closer to users if we conceptually and graphically modernise them, we have created many
articles and
publications. An example of this is the digital publication
Statistical Postcards, which provides information on seven Croatian cities and their historical, cultural and tourist attractions, with a special emphasis on statistical indicators on quality of life.
The modernised
Croatia in Figures is currently being prepared, a publication that will provide the current picture of Croatia in 24 statistical domains, and, in addition to data in tables, it will also contain interactive graphs, interesting visuals and accompanying texts that will, apart from interpreting data and methodology, place information in a wider social context.
We know that publishing data is not enough, so we also try to educate our audience - that is why we have developed the
Back 2 Basics, and we have been promoting statistical literacy among high school and university students through the
Statistics Competition and
Stedy projects, a statistical educational portal, for years.
The tool that will certainly help any user is the
Inflation Calculator, and there are also features that, in addition to all mentioned above, can also be fun - probably the most famous of which is the application
Names and Surnames in the Republic of Croatia, where the frequency of names and surnames according to the 2021 Census can be checked.
All these features are united by our social networks - a place where you will find out the latest data and get informed about the Bureau’s activities, learn more about statistical terms and concepts, but also find out the abundance of interesting facts that follow current affairs in society. To all those who have not yet done so, we would like to say ꟷ click on the “Follow” button on
Facebook,
Instragram,
X and
LinkedIn, and we would also like to express our gratitude to our faithful online audience by sending the following message: We are here for you, with the promise that we will strive to be even better.
For statistics in general to be even better, data of even better quality and up to date as well as tailored to the needs of users, we need to hear your opinion. Click on the
Customer Satisfaction Survey button and give us your feedback, assess our work and provide us with your suggestions on what we can improve.
We wish all fans of numbers and data a
happy European Statistics Day!
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