As a result of an Institutional Cooperation Agreement signed in 2015 by several Spanish ministries working on combating racism, xenophobia, LGBTIphobia and other forms of intolerance, these institutions are developing joint and coordinated actions to improve hate crime recording and data collection. One of the outputs emerging from this collaboration is the annual report on hate crime published by the Ministry of Interior.

Since 2011, the Estonian Ministry of Culture, Department of Cultural Diversity has carried out the Integration Monitoring of the Estonian Society survey every three years to monitor trends in the integration of immigrants and ethnic minorities. It also covers perceptions on the state of equality and attitudes of Estonians and non-Estonians towards integration.

The Inter-institutional working group on discrimination monitoring is a platform led by the Finnish Ministry of Justice to gain shared understanding on the need for equality data. This cooperation and exchange strengthens the capacity of different stakeholders and gradually mainstreams equality data collection into the regular duties of participating organisations.

In 2018, Statistics Lithuania started developing a user-friendly interactive map on gender equality in 60 municipalities. This allowed equality between women and men to be monitored based on more than 40 indicators.

For the first time, the Central Statistics Office of Ireland has developed and included questions on gender identity and sexual orientation in the module on equality of the Quarter 1 2019 General Household Survey. After assessing the responses, it is planned to include these questions in the future population census.

In 2018, the Finnish Ministry of Justice mapped data sources relating to discrimination. It aimed at identifying the sources to be regularly surveyed by the discrimination monitoring group and to make recommendations for a sustainable monitoring mechanism.

Since 2016, the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, the National Police and the National Association of Municipal Anti-discrimination Services have been publishing figures on discrimination incidents registered by the police and complaints received by equality bodies in one online report. This brings together, presents and contextualises the data from several institutions dealing with discrimination complaints in different contexts. It also explains the relations and differences between the relevant datasets.

In 2011, the Greek National Centre for Social Research set up the Observatory on Combating Discrimination to collect and disseminate equality data, support the evaluation of non-discrimination policies and promote the exchange of good practices in the country.

In 2013 and 2016, the Spanish Institute of Women and for Equal Opportunities carried out two comprehensive surveys on the perceptions of discrimination and anti-discrimination policies, experiences of discrimination and attitudes towards minority groups among the general population in Spain. A comparative report on both surveys was released in 2018.

In 2018, the Croatian Government Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities published a study collecting baseline data on the socio-economic position of the Roma community in order to monitor progress with respect to Roma inclusion and integration. The basis for the study was a mapping of the Roma population, combining external and self-identification methods, which gave a precise indication of the size of the Roma population in Croatia for the first time ever.