1. Beyond silos Social policy, official statistics and social science
Ineke Stoop
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2. Stovepipes
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3. Silos Money Multidimensional phenomena Economic and social
Accuracy and relevance
Metadata
Core variables
Harmonisation
Re-engineering statistics: integration
Statistics and other surveys
Down with the silos
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4. Not about money
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5. Cost-efficiency Cheaper Higher quality Better quality for less money
Quality for whom
Quality for what purpose
Policies based on weak data
Policies based on no data
Local cost-effiency (let others do the job)
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6. User needs Social policy making Social policy evaluation
Social research
Dynamics, changes
Multi-dimensional phenomena
Problem areas/groups
Subjective information
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7. Ceies seminars Labour statistics Mixed Other statistics 1996
Labour statistics: basic needs
1999
Income distribution and different sources of income
2000
Social exclusion
1997
Employment and labour costs statistics in the EMU perspective
Education and training statistics and the functioning of labour markets
2001
Measuring lifelong learning
1998
Working time and working patterns
Health and safety at work
2002
Active ageing
2003
Labour statistics: towards enlargement
2004
Gender statistics - occupational segregation: extent, causes and
consequences
Social protection
2005
Migration statistics: social and economic impacts with respect to the labour market
2006
Consumer protection
2007
Ethnic and racial discrimination on the labour market: measurement, statistics and indicators
Perspectives of improving economic welfare measure-ment in a changing Europe
2008
New family relationships and living arrangements
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8. Harmonisation, integration and problem-orientation
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9. User perspectives Problem/policy area instead of statistics
Social and economic
Short term and long term
Point estimation and relationships
Dynamic
Statistics and other sources
Relevance (and accuracy)
Active ageing:residential population
Immigration: main language
Equal opportunities: characteristics minority ethnic groups
Social cohesion: objective variables
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10. Trust in statistics, statistics on trust
Danish and Dutch presentations at ISI 2009
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11. Statistical information plays an important role in business, public and political decision making in country.
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12. Personally, how much trust do you have in the official statistics in (OUR COUNTRY), for example the statistics on unemployment, inflation or economic growth?
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13. Role and trust
Corr 63. ex UK and FR 77
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14. Trust and statistics Role in decision making Trust
Important
Does it play a role?
Can it play a role?
Trust
Code of practice
Accuracy, relevance
Understandability, communication
Source of data: Eurobarometer
Statistics on (social) trust
Available?
Subjective
Web surveys, panels
Academic surveys (ESS)
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15. Metadata for users Available Accessible Direct link to statistics
Complete
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16. Non-monetary poverty
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17. Metadata: poverty
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18. European Social Survey
Questionnaire text
All fielded languages
Showcards
Deviations
Sampling procedures
Response rates
Standardised calculation
Individual call records
Translation documentation
Documentation deviations
DSS meeting, October 2009

19. Deviations and fieldwork summary
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20. Core variables and harmonisation
Important Eurostat initiative
Taken up by other surveys?
Harmonisation models (mode)
Output harmonisation
National best
Comparability
Metadata
Input harmonisation
Efficient
Can be imposed?
National best?
Comparable
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21. Re-engineering statistics: integration
Different models across countries?
In some countries only?
Based on population register
public registers and administrative records
Advantages
Comparable data across surveys
Modules (statistics)
Modules (others)
Screeners
Follow-up studies specific groups
DSS meeting, October 2009

22. Statistics and other surveys
DSS meeting, October 2009

23. ESS, SHARE ESS: European Social Survey
Share: Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Academic background
Policy use
Statistical quality criteria
Competition or cooperation?
Statistical toolbox and facilities for other surveys?
DSS meeting, October 2009

24. Down with the silos
DSS meeting, October 2009