The Eurostat podcast series “Stats in a Wrap” looks at the world through the eyes of statistics. Its aim is to pick the most delicious morsels and striking flavours to provide insights into the unexpected, the quirky and downright peculiar perspectives that only the numbers can reveal.
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60 years of European farm structure statistics: a story of agricultural change
In this episode, we discuss the EU Farm structure Survey. Our ex-perts explain how farm statistics are collected from agricultural cen-suses, sample surveys in between the censuses, and existing rec-ords. We will explore why farms have become fewer and much larger, and what the future of farming will bring. You will find out how to reduce paperwork for farmers and how data can be collected from people sitting on a tractor in a field.
The speakers are: Helena Ramos from Eurostat; Jay Castano from the Food and Agriculture Organization, and Vincent Marcus from the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty. Her-vé Le Grand, also from the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, is interviewed separately in the podcast. Jonathan Elliott will host the discussion.
25 Jun 2026
The health workforce crisis in Europe and the data behind it
This episode is all about the healthcare workers who keep Europe's health systems on their feet, and the data that is revealing a crisis. Europe has more doctors and nurses per head of population than anywhere else on Earth, and yet, across the continent, health systems are under strain: overwhelmed, understaffed, and increasingly anxious about the future.
The speakers are: Tomas Zapata from the World Health Organization's European office, Katarzyna Ptak-Bufkens, policy officer at the European Commission (DG SANTE) and Monica Pace, statistical officer at Eurostat. They will discuss this topic with Jonathan Elliott and discover what the data actually tells us about Europe's healthcare workforce.
2 Jun 2026
The fine art of measuring the EU’s hazardous chemicals
In this episode, we're going to find out how the EU's statistics community is measuring the almost unmeasurable complex world of hazardous chem-icals.The speakers are: Jan Oltmanns, a scientist at FoBiG, a German research and advisory institute for hazardous substances; Carla Teixeira, statistical lead officer at Eurostat dealing with data on chemicals; and Aleksandra Małyska, policy officer at the European Commission (DG ENV). They will discuss this topic with Jonathan Elliott.
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