SYNTHESIS INE@COVID-19, 9 mar-2021

www.ine.pt page 1/18 Communication Unit | tel: +351 21 842 61 10 | sci@ine.pt Statistics Portugal makes available the weekly report for monitoring the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This report covers the press releases concerning: - COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: Regional Economic Activity – March to December 2020, published on February 24; - Business and consumer surveys – February 2021, published on February 25; - CPI/HICP flash estimate – February 2021, published on February 26; - Fast and exceptional enterprise survey COVID-19 – February 2021, published on February 26; - Context indicators for the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal, published on February 26. For further details, see the links available throughout this press release. March . 09 . 2021 SYNTH SIS IN @ COVID-19 COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal: Regional Economic Activity How has the pandemic affected regional economies? This initiative is part of the development of the National Data Infrastructure (IND) at Statistics Portugal, which aims to take advantage of the integration of data from different sources and with a potential utility to produce official statistics with greater granularity and frequency. In addition to the significant enrichment in terms of the production of statistics, it also has the effect of simplifying the reporting obligations by citizens and enterprises to Statistics Portugal. The results presented here fall within the scope of the STATSLab – Statistcs in development, portal that comprises projects for new statistical products that have not yet been fully completed and yet their results already express information that may prove useful for economic and social analysis.