Statistics Portugal´s dissemination policy is clearly users-oriented and assigns great importance to meeting customer needs and expectations. Wide and easy access to Statistics Portugal’s information is a priority, as well as improving the quality of the service provided. Transparency, which must underlie the production and dissemination of official statistics, is also based on a revisions policy.
Data dissemination
Statistics Portugal offers its customers several means and services to access information:
- Internet
On the Statistics Portugal website you can:
- Browse and download a significant volume of information, free of charge;
- Have access to other services, such as content subscription and submission of requests for information not available online;
- To look up the Publications area which allows access to all editions from Statistics Portugal and former entities.
- Statistics Portugal Library
- Consult the Bibliographic Catalogue which gathers statistical publications from national and international entities.
- In Statistics Portugal libraries - Porto, Coimbra, Lisboa, Évora and Faro - users have access to all publications, as well as to OECD iLibrary and also to the official statistics websites across the world.
- Statistics Portugal Information Network for Higher Education Institutions
Statistics Portugal (SP) provides a free service to all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in order to facilitate and increase the access and the use of official statistical information, which has the following aspects:
- Offer of SP´s publications (in paper);
- Training on the use of the SP´s Portal and Eurostat´s Portal for teachers, students, researchers and technical assistants of the HEI's documentation / library services.
- School Libraries Network
Under a protocol established with the School Libraries Network (RBE), “with a view to promoting knowledge and use of Statistics Portugal statistical information in schools”, Statistics Portugal:
- Makes available to the RBE each year more than one thousand copies of the Statistical Yearbook of Portugal, intended for the libraries that form part of this network;
- Regularly organises, following requests collected by the RBE, short sessions for primary and secondary school teachers which provide an introduction to statistical literacy issues, focusing on the use of the Statistics Portugal Portal and the ALEA Project website (Local Action for Applied Statistics).
There is also an accredited training programme, entitled Official statistical information in a learning context, which has been made available to Teacher Training Centres for these levels of education that wish to include it in their training offer.
