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An Introduction to the
International Conference on Indicators and Survey
Methodology
in the context of
The European Year for Combating Poverty, 2010
Vienna, 25-26/2/2010
Dr Ian Perry, Project Officer responsible for FP7-SSH-Indicators
Research in the Economic, Social Sciences and Humanities - Prospective
Directorate General for Research
European Commission
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Why are we here
today (and tomorrow)?
•Probably because you like Indicators and want to improve survey methodology
•Some of you are working specifically on indicators and surveys of poverty
•And it is The European Year for Combating Poverty
•Some others of you are working on general methods which could help us obtain
better poverty indicators
• We, many of us here today, are working on EU funded research projects
• And I hope that we all believe that we must try to reduce poverty in the EU
and elsewhere and need good official statistics upon which to build the necessary
indicators to be able to contribute to assessing and then reducing poverty in
Europe and thus to evidence based policy making
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European Community Funded Research –
The Framework Programmes (FPs)
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Pre FPs
FP1
FP2
FP3
FP4
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FP5
FP6
FP6
FP7
2007-13,
The future FP8 ?
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ECSC and EAEA, before mid 1980s, mainly energy
1984-7
somewhat retrospective legislation!
1987-91
first real FP
1990-94
really overlapping with FP2
1994-98
FPs 4, 5 and 6 not really overlapping
as first year no budget
1998-2002
FP3-FP6 only 4 years of funding
2002-6
Scientific Support for Policies, only in
7 years funding
(Years refer to budgetary commitments for whole projects (all years),
execution of projects and payments overlap to a high degree)
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FPs and Statistics and
Indicators Research
FP2 DG XIII (DOSES)
Official statistics research
FP3 DG XIII (DOSIS)
Official statistics research
FP4 DG INFSO (ex XIII) Projects possible in theory but no
projects selected for funding
FP5 DG INFSO (EPROS) Official statistics research
FP6 nothing except SSPs such as EUKLEMS and KEI
FP7 DG RTD (SSH) Indicators and official statistics research
The future (more Indicators calls in 2011-13, then FP8?)
Work Programme for 2011 publication mid 2010, followed by a
call for proposals
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FP7-SSH Recent Changes
To collaborative (classical shared cost multi-partner – FP6 STREP) research projects
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Almost any country possible as a partner and most can be paid by EC (FP7)
Any institution of any type plus individuals can be partners (FP6)
Disappearance of the additional cost model (FP7)
Therefore faculty and permanent staff can be reimbursed
In levels of financing (but globally probably not much real change) (FP7)
The system of advances (FP6, FP7)
Financial reporting rules (FP5 and before cost statements, FP6 audit certificates,
FP7 approved audit methods)
ERC (with single partner projects)
2 Executive agencies (one for ERC, the second for implementing other work)
The future (who knows ? anyway I will have retired by then and before the end of
the INDICSER project!)
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FP7-SSH-calls
From 2010 Work Programme onwards
Societal challenges
Large scale integrating projects with minimum 6.5
M€ (max budget 8M€) EU contribution and at least 7
participants from 7different MS or AC
Topics
Small and medium sized projects with maximum 2.7
M€ EU contribution and at least 3 participants from 3
different MS or AC
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What research is
going on currently - 1
Funded from FP7-SSH
AMELI
SAMPLE
RISQ
BLUE-ETS
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AMELI
Advanced European Laeken Indicators
● Higher quality indicators from surveys such as EUSILC
● Reduced variance and bias
● General methodology not just applicable to EUSILC
N.B. On-going research project
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SAMPLE
Small Area Methods for Poverty and Living
Conditions Estimates
● Directly relevant to Combatting Poverty
● Also relevant to improving small area estimates
derived fromsurveys such as EU-SILC
● Making use of administrative data
● General methodology not just applicable to EUSILC
N.B. On-going research project
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RISQ
Representativity Indicators for Survey Quality
● Research of general utility but could be applied to
EU-SILC
● Going beyond simply looking at the sample size
N.B. On-going research project
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BLUE-ETS
BLUE – Enterprise and Trade Statistics
● Aims to support the MEETS initiative
● Reduction of administrative and response burden
N.B. project officially starts 1/4/2010
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EU Funded
other research - 1
AIM-AP
Advanced Income Measurement for the Assessment
of Public Policies
● Not specifically on low incomes supports
EUROMOD model for DG EMPL and looks at much
more than simply salaries
N.B. Project finished 1 year ago
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SHARE
EU Funded
other research - 2
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
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Not specifically on low incomes but the old are often living
in poverty
On-going 4th wave gradually additional countries being added
COMPARE
Toolbox for improving the Comparability of Cross-National
Survey Data with applications to SHARE
● Anchoring vignettes to remove subjective
differences between countries, regions, cultures,
groups, …
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What research is
going on currently - 2
Funded from elsewhere
I hope that all of you people working in the field
know and are taking note aware of what other
research is going on out there, and not just in the
EU
If not CRIS may be able to help you
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What are some of the
fundamental problems
when measuring poverty
- a personal opinion
Getting realistic definitions of poverty
Breaking out the components to be measured (Beyond
simply salaries)
Surveying and measuring these components accurately, …
Including ALL the poor in what is measured
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The ideal official
statistics research project
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Should involve both academic researchers and practicioners/
methodologists from NSIs plus where necessary end users
● Should involve both academic researchers and practicioners/
methodologists from NSIs plus where necessary end users
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More NSIs need to become active on this front
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Additional universities need to get seriously interested in
official statistics research
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Hopefully activities such as BLUE-ETS and a future coordination action centred around Beyond GDP and the
Stiglitz Report should help to promote wider involvement
and more interest in such work
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2010 Our jobs and
some questions
2010 is the year for combating poverty
So what are we all doing to combat poverty?
How can we contribute to combating poverty, this
year and in the future
Also what are we contributing to official statistics
research/methodology
How can we all contribute on this front in the
future?
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Finally remember
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Seek and you will find,
Ask and it will be given, ….
(St Luke ch11, v9)
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This quote from the Bible is the justification for doing research and also
very relevant to running surveys and collecting statistics
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It is also the justification for paying you to do good research, improve
survey methods and then run big surveys which produce policy relevant
information that can be used to underpin evidence based policy making
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Remember if you do not seek you will not find and if you do not ask you
will not receive
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QUESTIONS?
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Contact details
Dr Ian PERRY
Principal Administrator
SDME 7/36
Research in Economic, Social Sciences and Humanities – Prospective
Directorate L – Science, Economy and Society
Directorate General for Research
European Commission
BE – 1049 BRUSSELS
Belgium
Telephone
+32 2 296 2079, no answering machine
Fax
+32 2 297 9608
E-mail:
[email protected]
Secretary (Eva Szell), telephone: +32 2 298 4130, my pseudo answering machine
E-mail:
[email protected]
Office address (not to be used for mail or objects sent by courier service but only when you
want or need to visit us):
8 square de Meeûs, BE - 1050 Brussels
(Metro: Trône, train: Brussels Luxembourg, bus: square de Meeûs, Trône, Luxembourg)
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