1. Data availability in the Candidate Countries: results and conclusions
Special MGSC Meeting on the Compliance Database
27 June 2003
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Programme Secretariat for the Phare Multi-Beneficiary Statistical Co-operation Programme

2. Data availability study
Objectives, approach, organisation
Processing of the responses
Presentation of the results
Limitations of the DA study
Major conclusions and figures
What’s next?

3. Objectives and approach
- a quick quantitative study on DA in the CCs and gaps identification,
- by product: update of the Ediflow list.
Approach and organisation:
- a questionnaire based on Ediflow list, pilot test, dedicated meeting, collection and processing, tables by statistical domain and by country (group), second round of collection.

4. Processing of the responses
Treatment of individual responses:
- Correction of obvious logical errors,
- Classification of items: applicable, not
applicable, not applicable before a specific date, not
relevant, new, modified,unclear, not answered.
- Problems encountered,
- Possible bias due to interpretation of
of items (CC) and responses (PS).

5. Presentation of the results
Report with annexes,
Overall response table,
Country tables on data availability,
Aggregate tables by statistical module, sub/sector and domain by country/groups of countries,
Aggregate tables by statistical domain and country/groups of countries.

6. Limitations of the study
Only quantitative information
Ediflow list as a reference
Methodological information still needed
Different number of data sets for CCs
Arbitrary classification of items by the CCs
Automatic processing requiring rigid classification of data sets

7. Major conclusions Objectives of the study achieved
Second round of collection considerably improved the completeness and quality of responses
Overall situation of DA in the CCs good
The study is a starting point for detailed inventory of data flow to Eurostat
More work still needed

8. Major figures For all CCs: Overall response - 94.47%
Overall data availability %
Data availability in the ACC %
Data already sent to Eurostat %
Possible to identify gaps and strong areas by CC and by statistical domain
Detailed information could be obtained from CC response sheets

9. What’s next? Analysis and action plans(Eurostat)
Dissemination of the results to the CCs (Eurostat)
Continuation of work on Ediflow (CC LCs)
Use of results at the national level (CCs)
Integration of the required data sets description into the CDB (PS)