DGINS CONFERENCE "MEASURING PROGRESS, WELL-BEING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT”
DGINS (Directors General of the National Statistical Institutes) conferences are the most important forum in the European Union for discussions about the future and development of the European Statistical System.
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. The head of the host country's national statistical institute acts as chairperson.
Around 120 people, including the Presidents of National Statistical Offices, representatives of the European Commission, the United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, participate in this meeting. The first DGINS meeting was held in 1953 in Luxembourg.
The first DGINS discussion on the multiannual statistical programme took place in 1971 in Rome.
The first statistical programme (1976-78) was proposed to the DGINS by Eurostat in 1973.
A new mandate for the DGINS Conference was adopted by the SPC at its meeting on 22-23 November 2000, indicating the present 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.
This year's DGINS Conference entitled "Measuring progress, well-being and sustainable development" will be held on 29 September - 1 October 2010 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The last DGINS Conferences covered the following topics:
2010 Sofia, Measuring Progress, Well-being and Sustainable Development
2009 Malta, Migration - Statistical Mainstreaming
2008 Vilnius, Reduction of the Administrative Burden through Official Statistics
2007 Budapest, The ESS Response to Globalization - Are We Doing Enough?
2006 Cracow, Making the system work
2005 Copenhagen, The Challenge of communicating statistics
2004 Paris, Short term indicators priority assessment, quality, revisions and timeliness
2003 Athens, Social Statistics in the enlarged EU
2002 Palermo, The future of the European Statistical System
2001 Madrid, Strategic planning in the context of enlargement
2000 Porto, Information and knowledge - The role of statistics
1999 The Hague, Statistics, a challenge for the future
1998 Stockholm, Quality work and quality assurance within statistics
