Euro-indicators Working Group Luxembourg, 4th & 5th December 2008 Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Annual Assessment and ongoing changes By Agnieszka Politewicz Item 4.1 of the Agenda Annual Assessment and ongoing changes By Agnieszka Politewicz Doc 230/08 Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Introduction Scope of European and National short term indicator Euro-IND (SPC mandate 1999) Prompt availability (real-time updated) Good coverage and reliability Long and harmonized time series (spanning over 15 years) Fully documented Easy accessibility and Key Short Term Indicators Friendly presentation: TGM, tables, graphs, and synthetic meta-information html format (generally last 12 or 4 values) or downloadable tables Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Introduction Regular quality checks (monthly) since 2001 by Unit D1 Main target of quality checks : Help producers, Convince users Producers: support for domain managers to determine, attain and maintain quality standards Users: tool following evolution and usefulness of Euro-IND supply Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Introduction Eurostat’s quality based on ISO 8402 norm Quality is the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs Quality is monthly monitored in line with the European Statistical Code of Practice – Principle 4 State of Affairs (SOA) Monitoring Report (MR) Reports disseminated in PDF format through the Euro-indicators/PEEIs special topic of Eurostat website www.ec.europa.eu/eurostat/euroindicators Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Scheme for quality assessment Quality Indicators for SOA Relevance 3. Timeliness Extractions - Freshness Hits 2. Completeness 4. Accuracy Coverage - Missing Values Geographical level - Strange Values Distribution by domain Frequency of series 5. Clarity Length of series - Metadata availability Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Relevance How often the database is consulted is a measure of relevance for users and their needs Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Number of monthly extractions per day form Euro-IND and Shorties Relevance Number of monthly extractions per day form Euro-IND and Shorties Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Completeness The domains included in the database should reflect needs and priorities of users Five key elements have been chosen: Coverage → # of series Geographical level → # of countries and aggregates Distribution by domain → % in domains Frequency of series → % of Y/Q/M series Length of series → % length classes Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Completeness Coverage of the Euro-IND database Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Completeness 46 Geographical entities in October 2008: 8 European aggregates 27 MS 9 Other countries BLEU and EURONEXT Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Completeness Distribution by domain in the Euro-IND database Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Frequency of the Euro-IND active series Completeness Frequency of the Euro-IND active series Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Completeness Length of the series in the Euro-IND database Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Timeliness of the Euro-IND series Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Accuracy Based on “missing values” Series with missing values (October 2008): 1.3% of the total available series and “strange values” Series with strange values (October 2008): 1-4 0.8% 5-10 0.2% over 10 1.0% of total available series Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Clarity (more on that in Doc 232-a/08) Clarity is assimilated to availability of metadata The majority of metadata base pages of the Euro-IND database were updated in 2008 (more on that in Doc 232-a/08) Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

Clarity Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

The Working Group is invited to: give indications on the improvement of quality measures used to assess the Euro-IND database and Short Term Indicators report on the quality checks currently made in their short-term statistics domains Eurostat – Unit D1 Key indicators for the European policies

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