Resumen de Public Administration School of Statistics (EEAP) as a reference of Spanish official Statistics system: Present situation and future challanges
Francisco Veira Vitores, Encarnación Miquel García
In Spain, the National Statistics Institute (INE in Spanish initials) has a department called the Public Administration School of Statistics (EEAP in Spanish initials), whose mission is to provide training in statistical methods, techniques and products for civil servants from all public administration bodies, with the aim of being continuously adapted to the new trends in this field. The intention is to showcase the positive experience of this arrangement, by which the training needs of the National Statistical System, incorporating public administration bodies from national to local level, can be met. By means of this training unit, the changing needs and approaches required by the strategy behind national and international statistics can be addressed and put into practice. The EEAP provides both face to face (in various formats) and online courses. This latter approach means more students can be reached. This initiative provides a window through which products and processes can be correctly explained to users of statistics. One of the main objectives is to promote the use of classifications and procedures in the production of official statistics. © 2020 SEIO.
