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2012 ESSnet Workshop – Cavour Conference Centre,
Rome, 3-4 December 2012
EU 7th 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 7th 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
UoS
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 (*)
UoM
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:
respond to a changing and growing demand for new and better
data on business statistics
propose cost-efficient improved ways to collect, disseminate,
use and access data for both research and policy purposes
reduce 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:
AREA1 WP2-WP3-WP4-WP5
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
AREA2 WP6-WP7
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)
AREA3 WP8-WP9
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
AREA4 WP10-WP11
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)
WP1
Management and Administration of the Project
CHALLENGES, TOOLS AND MEANS
WP2
WP3
WP4
WP5
NSIs’ practices
concerning
business burden
and motivation
Business
perspectives
related to NSIs’
statistics
Improve the use of
administrative
sources
New ways of
collecting and
analysing
information
WP6
WP7
Enhancing quality of
business statistics
Business data
integration,
systematization and
access
WP8
WP9
Methodological case studies
New types of indicators-Applying results
DIALOGUE ACROSS EUROPE AND EXTENDING THE RESULTS
WP10
Improve the dialogue among European NSIs and Stakeholders
WP11
Scientific Coordination, Dissemination and External Evaluation of the Project
BLUE – ETS Main Results
(1/5)
WP2 “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 AdminData
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
WP6 “Enhancing quality of business statistics”
Leader: UT
Other partners : ISTAT, UNIBO, UoS, UoM
WP7 “Business data integration, systematization and access”
Leader: ISTAT
Other partners : CBS, UoS, IAB, UoM
WP8 “Methodological case studies”
Leader: INFOSTAT
Other partners : ISTAT, CBS, SSB, UL, UNIBG, SCB, SORS
WP9 “New types of indicators-Applying results”
Leader: ISTAT
Other partners : UNIBO, CEPS
The 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
NTTS2013 Conference (session on BLUE-ETS)
BLUE-ETS Final Conference
Release of all the deliverables envisaged by the project by March 2013
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION