Your partner for European statistics: EDS European Data Service
The EDS European Data Service is a service point of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany which assists all users requiring official European statistics. Our service centre mainly provides statistics published by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat).
The EDS European Data Service is part of the i-Punkt Berlin (Federal Statistical Office) and consists of a highly qualified team of consultants with a large amount of experience in statistical user help sections within our office. We aim to provide a service that is highly user oriented.
The EDS European Data Service is a member of a European network of so-called European Statistical Data Support (ESDS) service units, that is coordinated by Eurostat. These service units offer free of charge advice on European statistics.
Our services
Our service is aimed at all users that require harmonised statistical data on the EU, the Eurozone, the 27 EU-Member States and some of the key EU partner countries.
Our aim is to direct users towards the data they require. We help all our users to find the relevant data on the internet, whilst also disseminating statistical publications and assisting users that our searching for data in Eurostat's online databases. Furthermore we offer information on methodological aspects and can also contact the Eurostat units responsible for certain statistics on your behalf, should this prove to be necessary.
Journalists will find a link to the Eurostat press releases on our website. The "media service" section also includes the contact details of the Eurostat Media Support – the Eurostat service centre for all press and media requests.



