18 September 2017

The Czech Statistical Office announces dates of publication of News Releases for the year 2018. From today, the new Calendar of News Releases is available on the CZSO website. The public can find there when new data on the GDP, unemployment, prices or industry will be published.

News Releases belong to key outputs published by the CZSO. They are released on a determined day always at 9 a.m. at the www.czso.cz website in both Czech and English. They provide important news on the current economic or demographic development.

“It is essential for the public to know on what days concrete News Releases are released. It is part of our equal approach to users. Every one of them with no exception must have the same opportunity to get informed about statistical data being issued. Nobody is provided data in advance. Data are available to everybody at precisely the same time, the same second,” the CZSO President, Iva Ritschelová, says. Also owing to binding dates announced in advance the CZSO can guarantee its independence. This way, it is provable that news is not issued in relation to political developments or other events.

The Calendar of News Releases for the year 2018 comprises 21 items in total, which will be published on 153 dates. The first output with data for the year 2018 will be released on 24 January 2018. It will contain business cycle survey data. The last date in the Calendar is 3 April 2019; on that day, notification of the government deficit and debt for the fourth quarter of 2018 will be published.

Contact:
Petra Báčová
Spokeswoman of the CZSO
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