1. Working Group Meeting: Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice 19-20 March 2018, Luxembourg
Review of 2017 joint Eurostat-UNODC data collection Sanja Vujackov, GOPA Luxembourg Sàrl
Eurostat

2. Presentation plan: Presentation coverage The 2017 Data collection
(Un)Foreseen changes in comparison with previous year
Overall response
Difficulties during the data collection
Areas for improvement

3. Presentation coverage:
Period:
Questionnaire of interest:
only data questionnaire
four years: (17*)
Jurisdictions (41 in total):
the data provided for 38/41 jurisdictions
the data for Belgium, Italy* and FYR Macedonia have not been provided
12 October November March 2018
launch of data collection initial deadline end date for the analyses

4. The timeliness of national data deliveries by 10 March 2018
The 2017 Data collection:
The timeliness of national data deliveries by 10 March 2018
the number of data questionnaires sent
>> deadline

5. (Un)Foreseen changes in 2017 Data collection in comparison with the previous data collections:
2017 Questionnaire:
1 joint questionnaire instead of two
different format, sheets, definitions…
introduction of some new indicators
467 indicators covered in total
2017 Data collection launch date:
slightly different (but in advance agreed!)
Focal points – changes in personnel:
before and during the data collection/validation

6. Overall response:
Around half of the indicators requested were transmitted to Eurostat:
questionnaires sent with some incomplete or missing categories
Variation by the category of data - examples:
Not provided in all (collected) jurisdictions:
Total persons brought before the Criminal Courts by legal representation
Victimization Survey (majority of the categories)
Provided in all (collected) jurisdictions:
Sexual Violence, number of offences
Rape, number of offences
Theft, number of offences

7. Difficulties during the data collection
Questionnaire version used:
UNOCD vs. joint Eurostat- UNODC:
different languages (2/38 jurisdictions)
missing Eurostat sheet (3/38 jurisdictions)
Hidden Sheet 6. CJS Personnel
not needed for the UNODC data collection but needed for Eurostat (8/38 jurisdictions)
Errors during the automatic pre-fill of the data in Eurostat sheet for years :
some jurisdictions spotted the errors and corrected them
others, only corrected certain indicators
the rest did not correct them

8. Difficulties during the data collection
Flow of communication/information between the parties:
Focal points
GOPA Luxembourg
Eurostat
UNODC
Or lack of any feedback

9. Areas for the improvement
The use of eDAMIS:
files have been provided by
files had incorrect names
some of the focal points did not have the access due to changes in the personnel/institution
Methodological issues:
7/41 jurisdictions needed the methodological clarifications
Incorrect numbers formats – some examples:
a picture of a number
extra spaces between numbers
comments in the data section…

10. Thank you for your attention.
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about the ongoing data collections to:
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