The Equality data handbook was published by the European Commission in 2007, and has been updated for the purposes and within the framework of the current project. The author of the initial Handbook, Timo Makkonen, is one of the partners on the project and is the main author of the updated edition. The Handbook targets all stakeholders who are involved in the regulation, collection, use or evaluation of equality data, whether on the national or the European level. In addition to providing a typology of equality data and an overview of the legal framework regulating its collection and use, the Handbook highlights a number of key issues such as current trends across the Member States, good practice examples and issues of concern. Finally, the Handbook contains a concluding chapter on Recommendations, which not only provides a set of new recommendations but also describes the current state of affairs and main developments in relation to the key elements of the recommendations that were set out nine years earlier in the initial edition of the Handbook.
