Statistics are important for all evidence based policy making, but rarely has it been truer than in the Lisbon Strategy where indicators are used extensively to monitor and assess policy as well as to measure progress towards the strategic objectives of economic growth and more jobs.
The report is based on the same headline structural indicators as in the annual progress report of the Commission, but it also includes data from the three EFTA States - Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. Consequently, the readers can compare how these EFTA States measure up against the EU States and in many cases against the USA and Japan as well.
This publication is an update of the Structural Indicators published in the EFTA Bulletin 1-2006 March.
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