Publication
22 January 2026Council publishes updated revision and confidentiality policy
The updated policy clarifies how provisional estimates are labelled and when historical series may be revised.
PublicationThe Council has published an updated statistical revision and confidentiality policy as part of the Methodology Handbook.
The policy confirms that each indicator series is revised once per annual reporting cycle, that provisional national estimates are labelled until final consolidation, and that individual respondent-level data are never published, only aggregated country totals.
Members and data users can read the full policy on the Methodology page of this site.