Responsibility for compiling statistics at the European level is shared between the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the European Commission through Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office. In this section, you may find methodologies, references to standards and manuals used for the collection and compilation of ESCB statistics and data.

The exact division of labour upon which the working standards are based is laid out in the documents available on the Statistics co-operation and standards page of the ECB website.

For more information on the standardised mechanism for the exchange of statistical data and metadata, please see the SDMX website.

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