Transcript Standardno poročilo o kakovosti

Globalisation processes
in the field of statistics
Discussion
DGINS, Budapest,
2007
Irena Križman
Director-General
of the Statistical Office of the
Republic of Slovenia
Contents
• Short presentation of papers,
followed by discussion points
• Challenges (summary)
E. Giovannini: Is globalisation a
threat for official statistics?
• Impact on the “statistical function”
• Value added of statistics
• Technologies challenge the trust and
communication strategies
• Usefulness and relevance of statistics
for all citizens
• Innovative approach: from
information providers to knowledge
brokers
E. Giovannini: Is globalisation a threat for
official statistics? Challenges and risks
• How to increase the
value added?
• Globalisation affects
the size of the
audience
• The official data
actually used –
capacity of creating
new knowledge
• From information
providers to
knowledge builders
• National vs. global
• Unfair competition
with other sources
• Trust in “official”
• Lack of statistics on
use of and trust in
official statistics
• Lack of analytical work
• Exchange of micro
data
• Less conservative and
more risk taking
Issues and questions
• Do NSIs fully exploit these new
opportunities? Do we have the strategies
in place?
• Are we prepared to serve the global
audience and make the products
accessible to and accessed by the global
audience?
• How important is the statistical literacy?
• Are we too conservative and why?
L. Benkovičová: Use of Administrative Data
Sources in the Globalisation Process in
Statistics
• Searching for and use of new processes
and sources in gathering the data
• Cross cutting policy issues
• Permanent lack of financial and human
resources
• Systematic use of public registers and
administrative sources at micro data level
• Integrative approach to data sources
• Co-operation with administrators
Issues and questions
• Registers at EU level as precondition
for EU samples, do we need them ?
• Euro Groups Register and the
problems expected
• Step by step approach
• The importance of micro data in
building the complex picture of
global phenomena
• Quality and confidentiality
K. Dunnell at al.: Globalisation: Statistical
challenges and policy evidence needs
• The key measurement challenges in different
fields of statistics to support the UK policy needs
• Globalisation as a complex phenomena
• Measurement challenges: specialisation in supply
chain, cross country consistency in treatment of
business units, intangible transactions, greater
financial integration, inequality and
disaggregated statistics
• Trust and confidence in official data
• Increased and more focused international cooperation is needed
Issues and questions
• What are the recent and future
globalisation effects to report on over the
next years?
• Who are the main winners and losers?
• What policies work to support those faring
worse?
• How will demand for and delivery of public
services be affected by globalisation?
S. Keuning: Meeting the challenges of
globalisation requires an enhanced
cooperation between the ESS and the ESCB
• Increasing need for better financial
statistics (financial globalisation)
• Euro Groups Register
• Wider exchange of micro-data for
statistical purposes only is proposed
• Standardisation of concepts, definitions
and classifications
• Good practice: statistical co-ordination
and co-operation in the EU
• Problems: transfer prices, distortions in
the national external trade statistics
Issues and questions
• Will all legal impediments regarding micro
data exchange be removed with the new
basic legal framework ? Should legislation
on EU System of Central Banks be also
revised?
• To collect the data in one country only is
cheaper, but what if the problem of quality
appears? (Intrastat- one flow case)
• The division of work and responsibilities
between the ESCB and Eurostat
Eurostat: The impact of globalisation in
statistical processes: opportunities for the
ESS
• “Informational globalisation”- easy and
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widespread access to information, knowledge,
education
Growth of cross - border data flows (global
standards, global users, indicators of
globalisation)
European integration and globalisation of Europe
Growing concerns about the cost and response
burden
National vs. supranational interests
Issues and questions
• How the role of Eurostat as a “global
actor” could be strengthened?
• What are the reasons for poor
application of methodological and
technical standards? Do we have an
assessment on that?
Challenges (summary)
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Concept of global user
Integrative approach to:
- standards (methods, IT ,organisation)
- processes, division of work
- public and private data sources
- sectors’ statistics
Development of the EU registers
Exchange of micro data
More analytical work
Reporting the quality to “global user”
Proactive or conservative???
Thank you very much for your
attention