Dr. Vaida Šapolaitė, a researcher at the Institute of Economics and Rural Development of the Lithuanian Social Science Centre, participated in an international statistics conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on October 20–21, 2026.
The Portuguese National Institute of Statistics (INE) held a conference organized by the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) and the National Consumer Councils (NUC) titled “European Statistics at a Crossroads: Priorities, Opportunities, and Constraints.” At the conference, organised jointly by Eurostat and the Portuguese INE, Dr. V. Šapolaitė, a researcher at the LCSS IERD, presented the results of her research.
The conference was attended by heads of official statistics authorities, researchers, and experts from EU countries. The conference addressed emerging challenges in a rapidly changing world, the impact of artificial intelligence on data analysis, opportunities for integrating administrative and private data sources, and efforts to reduce the administrative burden on data providers and compilers.
In her presentation, entitled “Modernisation of Agricultural Economic Accounts through the Integration of Administrative Data in Lithuania,” the Institute’s researcher presented Lithuania’s experience and methodological approaches to demonstrating how the use of administrative data sources can improve the compilation of economic for agricultural accounts while reducing the reporting burden on respondents.
For more information:
Dr. Vaida Šapolaitė, e-mail: vaida.sapolaite@lcss.lt