It is therefore important that this data collection modality is adequately anchored in a legal framework, in order to guarantee representative survey results. At the same time, as regards the collection of data from the financial sector, supervisors and statisticians should intensify their cooperation in order to align, and wherever possible integrate, their data collection efforts to a maximum extent.
Whereas globalisation complicates the compilation of national statistics and also makes them somewhat less meaningful, particularly in those fields where the decisions are now made at the euro area level, the collection of euro area statistics should continue to make the best possible use of the enormous statistical expertise at the NCBs and the NSIs.