Endless revisions of economic indicators
Markets promptly react to flash releases of economic indicators and large sums of money are lost or made based on zero-point-something percentage points of GDP growth. But, in the excitement of new...
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What we’re reading today in the world of statistics, open data and data journalism: We like a good political choropleth around here, and Sunday’s European election extravaganza did not disappoint in...
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Half of young Spaniards are not on the dole
It’s EUROPE’S SCARIEST CHART (against some pretty stiff competition): Spanish youth unemployment above 50 per cent! One in two young Spaniards on the scrapheap! Packs of ravening wolves roaming the...
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British more satisfied with rail services than other Europeans
The UK Department for Transport is under fire over the cancellation of a deal to award a rail franchise, because of “technical flaws” in the bidding process. The incident brings the British railway...
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European Parliament’s turnout problem in 3 charts
by Nassos Stylianou and John Burn-Murdoch Between May 22 and 25, some 400 million people will be eligible to vote in the European Parliament elections. But how many of them will actually turn up at the...
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European Parliament elections: complete results
Euro-sceptic parties made big gains across Europe in Sunday’s European Parliamentary elections, with anti-establishment parties gaining in support across the continent. France’s Front National,...
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EU unemployment tracker
Our new unemployment tracker shows the latest jobs data across the European Union, including top-line figures for each country's constituent regions. You can also download the latest data using the...
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A modern Greek tragedy – the crisis years in context
Keith Fray and Valentina Romei During the six years from 2007 to 2013 the annual output of the Greek economy fell by more than 26 per cent. On the FT’s statistics desk we wanted to know how that fall...
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Gender gaps in EU regions: worse in Southern Europe – and in London
About two in three women aged 25 to 64 years old are in employment in the European Union, the highest proportion since the data series began 23 years ago. However, the EU average conceals considerable...
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Widening regional disparities in Europe
Wealth disparities within EU countries were narrowing prior to the 2008 crisis, but since then the poorer regions have stopped catching up with the wealthiest ones. “European countries converge at...
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Greek economic set to expand, but it could be ‘statistical growth’
On Wednesday, Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras told Reuters that the country could beat expectations and report an expansion in 2016. The consensus among economists is that the Greek economy will...
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The scale of the European investment crisis and why it matters
Investment in Europe, both public and private, dropped dramatically following the international financial crisis, and in its aftermath growth has been weak in some countries and non-existent in others....
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