1 MISSION To prepare and disseminate quality and timely statistical information on economic and demographic processes in the state, social factors and trends in society and environment. Audronė Miškinienė Head, Public Relations Division, SL Helsinki 13-15 June, 2005 3rd Nordic Marketing conference 2 STATISTICS LITHUANIA Helsinki 13-15 June, 2005 3rd Nordic Marketing conference 3 ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITIES Director General Deputy Director General 5 Regional offices with 48 staff in 38 districts Public Relations Statistical Information Dissemination Division staff 28 Mass media , scientists, students Preparation of main publications, providing information to international organization 6 PR activities Requests 2 Internet /intranet Printing, layout 13 Marketing & Promotion Subscription and bookshop 2 Library Translation and editing 3 ESDS consultant Coordination of creating of output data base 1 Helsinki 13-15 June, 2005 3rd Nordic Marketing conference staff 8 2 3 0.5 4 MAIN PRINCIPLES OF PREPARATION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION IMF SDDS since 1997 E. dissemination: Printed form – only annual and quarterly publications, except Monthly bulletin Publications in *pdf. format available on Internet free of charge (79 publications per year) Functions of regional offices since July 2004 include promotion and dissemination of information Less marketing, more promotion and communication Covers – prepared in-house or outsourced Helsinki 13-15 June, 2005 3rd Nordic Marketing conference 5 PUBLIC RELATIONS 180 211 176 Press releases 411 350 496 Media requests (tel. , email) 2002 2003 1355 1367 1158 Articles in the press 2004 1570* 790 1169 Internet visits per day 1985 (of which 43% from abroad) i 2394 (of which 35% from abroad) 5193 (of which 23% from abroad) Free requests (email, fax) 7000 Telephone inqueries** 6000 2500 250 Acquisition of Library stock 858 987 6948 Library visitors 5247 4046 0 4000 * Before May 2003 both internal and external visits were counted. ** Only complicated tel. enquiries are registered. Helsinki 13-15 June, 2005 3rd Nordic Marketing conference 8000 6 FUTURE PLANS Further development of free Output DB, by including new indicators according to the approved plan Publications in *.pdf format free of charge on Internet, taking into consideration the users’ opinions Advanced more user-friendly Website Provision of assistance to regional offices in promotion and dissemination E-library development, including archiving paper publications Development of Customer DB Teaching of different user groups in Eurostat data bases (ESDS service) 2 outsourced opinion poles in 2005 (image and public administration) Helsinki 13-15 June, 2005 3rd Nordic Marketing conference 7 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION Helsinki 13-15 June, 2005 3rd Nordic Marketing conference