SYNTHESIS INE@COVID-19, 25 Jan-2021

www.ine.pt page 1/21 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 November 2020, published on January 15; - Production, employment, and wages in Construction indices – November 2020, published on January 11; - Perspectives on exports of goods, 2021 – 1 st forecast, published on January 11; - Business turnover, employment, wages and hours worked indices in Services – November 2020, published on January 12; - Consumer price index – December 2020, published on January 14; - Tourism activity – November 2020, published on January 15; - Context indicators for the COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal, published on January 15. For further details, see the links available throughout this press release. January . 25 . 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 - Statistics 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.