• Coverage: General demographic data, GDP/GNP, production, investment, consumption, employment, wages and prices, financial data, national budgets, foreign trade, balance of payments, external debt and standard of living. See Short list of indicators 
• Currency: Where possible, series go back to the 1960s. Series on the "new countries" (Croatia, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia) date from 1989. All time series are updated as soon as new data are released. 
• Sources: The national statistical offices and national banks of the respective countries; international organizations; scholarly publications; and approximately 350 daily newspapers and journals appearing in the countries covered. Many of the most useful series are further derived through the independent calculations, adjustments, estimates and projections of WIIW analysts and are not available from any other source. 
• Publications: The Vienna Institute's independent research, estimates and forecasts are published in a variety of forms, available as part of the WIIW Service Package, or for sale individually to the public by special order. Texts, footnotes and explanations on the time series are in English. 
• Access: Host of the WIIW Annual Database Eastern Europe is the Computing Centre for Economics and Social Sciences (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Rechenzentrum, WSR) in Vienna which provides online access over the Internet for external users and institutions. 
• The WIIW Annual Database Eastern Europe is also available online via Thomson Financial (Datastream) and Wefa. 
• Statistical Handbook: A compendium of the WIIW Annual Database Eastern Europe is published annually as a handbook (see WIIW Handbook of Statistics). 

• Data Coverage: Monika Schwarzhappel (WIIW), tel. (+43-1) 533 66 10-16 (e-mail: moni@wiiw.ac.at) 
• Technical matters and Online access: Peter Foti (WIIW), tel. (+43-1) 533 66 10-18 (e-mail: foti@wiiw.ac.at) 

Last update: January 2002 (M. Schwarzhappel)