International Statistical Cooperation

International statistical cooperation is also one of the tasks of DREM, with the goal of promoting the sharing of best practices and the exchange of know-how.

Since 2003, DREM has participated jointly with the Azores and Canary Islands counterparts, under both the EU Initiative INTERREG III – B and the Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands Transnational Cooperation Programme (PCT MAC 2007-2013), in highly relevant projects for the Region with innovative features, which have made possible for DREM to benefit from the pro-active promotion of such cooperation, including the sharing of best practices and the exchange of know-how.

The following projects were developed under the Community Initiative INTERREG III – B:

• TIO-MAC – Input-Output Tables for Macaronesia, with the goal of generating an Input-Output framework for the year of 2001;
• SIE-MAC – Statistical Information System for Macaronesia, for the development of a Data Warehouse and a Web Portal for each of the Statistical Offices of the participating regions;
• SIET-MAC – System of Indicators for Tourism, with the goal of providing statistical indicators about sustainable tourism;
• SICER-MAC – Integrated Account System for Macaronesia, comprising the Sequence of Non-Financial Accounts for the Sub-sectors of the Regional Economy and the Tourism Satellite Account for 2001;
• DAMARECE - Data Mart of Short-term Trends Economic Statistics for Macaronesia,  for the construction of a System of Short-term indicators;

Two more projects were developed under the Transnational Cooperation Programme Madeira-Azores-Canary Islands (PCT MAC 2007-2013):

• CONTRIMAC – Regional Accounting of Macaronesia, with the goal of developing Quarterly Regional Accounts, namely the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by quarter;

• METAMAC – Integrated Statistical Data and Metadata System, aimed to improve the quality of statistical data disseminated by the Statistics Departments of the Macaronesian Regions, through the incorporation of metadata.
  

The following project is currently being developed:

• ECOMAC - Econometric methods applied to short term data, with the goal of improving the economic analysis, through the selection of a set of indicators that incorporates econometric treatment of calendar and seasonal effects, using specialised software.