2012 ESSnet Workshop Cavour Conference Centre Rome

2012 ESSnet Workshop – Cavour Conference Centre, Rome, 3 -4 December 2012 EU 7 th Framework Programme Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities BLUE-ETS BLUE – Enterprise and Trade Statistics Donatella Fazio BLUE-ETS project coordinator Maria Grazia Calza BLUE-ETS senior researcher ISTAT

BLUE – ETS Overview www. blue-ets. eu BLUE-ETS is a collaborative research project, funded by the European Commission under the 7 th Framework Programme 2009 Theme 8 - Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (GA 244767) Duration 1 April 2012 - 31 March 2013 BLUE-ETS is based on a Consortium, led by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, of 16(*) partners which includes NSIs (5), research institutes (3) and universities (8) covering the areas and expertises needed to implement the research carried on by the project in the perspective of data producers and data users BLUE-ETS is about official business statistics in the framework of the EU Parliament and Council Programme on the Modernization of European Enterprises and Trade Statistics (MEETS)

BLUE – ETS Consortium 1 Italian National Institute of Statistics 2 ISTAT Italy Statistics Netherlands CBS Netherlands 3 Statistics Norway SSB Norway 4 University of Bologna UNIBO Italy INFOSTAT Slovakia CEPS Belgium UL Slovenia UNINA Italy UT Germany UNIBG Italy 5 6 Institute of Informatics and Statistics Centre for European Policy Studies 7 University of Ljubljana 8 University of Naples 9 University of Trier 10 University of Bergamo 11 University of Southampton Uo. S United Kingdom 12 Statistics Sweden SCB Sweden 13 Statistics Slovenia SORS Slovenia 14 Institute for Employment Research IAB Germany 15 University of Florence UNIFI Italy 16 University of Manchester (*) Uo. M United Kingdom

BLUE – ETS Objectives BLUE-ETS addresses one of the key challenges for EU and other countries' NSIs, international and other organisations working on enterprise and trade statistics: providing high quality and robust statistical information for better policy and socio-economic research supporting the Europe 2020 Strategy BLUE-ETS main objectives are: Ørespond to a changing and growing demand for new and better data on business statistics Øpropose cost-efficient improved ways to collect, disseminate, use and access data for both research and policy purposes Øreduce the burden on businesses imposed by data collecting

BLUE – ETS Work Plan (1/3) BLUE-ETS is structured in 11 Work Packages (WP), with an outcome of 34 deliverables, belonging to 4 main research areas: ØAREA 1 WP 2 -WP 3 -WP 4 -WP 5 research for better data collection and better data quality, greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness - tacking innovative actions at the design and collection stages, handling issues relating to cost, motivation and quality ØAREA 2 WP 6 -WP 7 research for better statistics through boosting the "potential" of existing data - "enriching" the quality of data and swelling their informational contents

BLUE – ETS Work Plan (2/3) ØAREA 3 WP 8 -WP 9 research for investing in new knowledge and value added, and opening up new opportunities - applying new methodologies, opening up new vistas, availing of the opportunities disclosed by new technologies ØAREA 4 WP 10 -WP 11 research for extending results and improving the statistical information, by fostering the dialogue and the cooperation among producers, users and policymakers - improving relationships with users, developing best practices and ways to disseminate

BLUE – ETS Work Plan (3/3)

BLUE – ETS Main Results (1/5) WP 2 “NSIs’ practices concerning business burden and motivation” Leader: CBS Other partners : SSB, UL, SCB, SORS The main results are reported in www. blue-ets. eu Deliverable 2. 1 “Inventory of published research: Response burden measurement and reduction in official business statistics. A literature review of national statistical institutes’ practices and experiences” Deliverable 2. 2 “Response Burden in Official Business Surveys: Measurement and Reduction Practices of National Statistical Institutes”

BLUE – ETS Main Results (2/5) WP 3 “Business perspectives related to NSIs’ statistics” Leader: UL Other partners : CBS, SSB, UNIBG, SCB The main results are reported in www. blue-ets. eu Deliverable 3. 1 “Business use of NSI statistics based on external sources (NSIs, publications, expert opinions)” Deliverable 3. 2 “Final report integrating findings on business perspectives related to NSIs' statistics”

BLUE – ETS Main Results (3/5) WP 4 “Improve the use of administrative sources” Leader: CBS Other partners : ISTAT, SSB, INFOSTAT, SCB Essnet Admin. Data The main results are reported in www. blue-ets. eu Deliverable 4. 1 “List of quality groups and indicators identified for administrative data sources” Deliverable 4. 2 “Report on methods preferred for the quality indicators of administrative data sources” (RESTRICTED) Deliverable 4. 3 “Quality Report Card for Administrative data sources including guidelines and prototype of an automated version”

BLUE – ETS Main Results (4/5) WP 10 “Improve the dialogue across EU NSIs and Stakeholders” Leader: CEPS Other partners : ISTAT, CBS, UL, UT The main results are reported in www. blue-ets. eu Deliverable 10. 1 “Initial brainstorming/workshop” Deliverable 10. 2 “Conference on Burden and Motivation in Official Business Surveys”

BLUE – ETS Main Results (5/5) WP 11 “Scientific coordination and dissemination “ Leader: ISTAT Other partners : CBS, UNIBO, INFOSTAT, UL, UNINA The main results are reported in www. blue-ets. eu Deliverable 11. 1 and 11. 2 “Communication tools” Deliverable 11. 3 “Workshop on pilot data collection at NSIs and businesses and to discuss other preliminary research results challenges and directions” Deliverable 11. 4 “Workshop to select ideas gathered on promising approaches to burden reduction and motivation enhancement for testing and to discuss phase 1 advances, present tools and research results” Deliverable 11. 5 "Workshop to discuss phase 2 advances, present tools and research results”

BLUE – ETS Working in progress WP 5 “New ways of collecting and analyzing information” Leader: INFOSTAT Other partners : UNINA WP 6 “Enhancing quality of business statistics” Leader: UT Other partners : ISTAT, UNIBO, Uo. S, Uo. M WP 7 “Business data integration, systematization and access” Leader: ISTAT Other partners : CBS, Uo. S, IAB, Uo. M WP 8 “Methodological case studies” Leader: INFOSTAT Other partners : ISTAT, CBS, SSB, UL, UNIBG, SCB, SORS WP 9 “New types of indicators-Applying results” Leader: ISTAT Other partners : UNIBO, CEPS ØThe research activity is in progress: provisional results have been presented at the "Workshop to discuss phase 2 advances, present tools and research results” (Deliverable 11. 5)

BLUE – ETS Next steps NTTS 2013 Conference (session on BLUE-ETS) BLUE-ETS Final Conference Release of all the deliverables envisaged by the project by March 2013

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