Indicators for long-term developments
Unit D5- Key Indicators for European policies
Ottawa,
May, 2009
Pieter Everaers, Eurostat
20 May 2009
 Sustainable development indicators
 Structural indicators
 PEEI’s
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Sustainable development indicators (1/3)
Introduction
 Treaty objective of the European Union
 Measuring progress -> integral part of the EU strategy
 130 indicators covering 10 themes and 11 headline
indicators (see leaflet)
 Main output:
– Indicators on the Website
– Biennial monitoring report of the EU SDS
 Many partners (Eurostat Units, countries, DGs,
Agencies, International Organisations)
 Top priority for 2009: EU SDS monitoring report
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Sustainable development indicators (2/3)
Web Page – chapter “Demographic changes”
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Sustainable development indicators (3/3)
Table “Employment rate of older workers”
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Structural indicators (1/3)
Introduction
 Support the monitoring of the Lisbon strategy
renewed in 2005 with a focus on growth and jobs.
 Eurostat provides a statistical annex to the Commission
Annual Progress Report (APR) for growth and jobs
 79 indicators arranged within 6 themes
whenever possible with a gender breakdown
 Shortlist of 14 indicators used for the annual progress report
 Very high visibility of these indicators (APR, most consulted
tables on the Website)
 Many partners (Eurostat, DGs, countries)
 Main priorities 2009: APR, review Lisbon strategy
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Structural indicators (2/3)
Commission Annual Progress report
Germany performance compared to EU27
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Structural indicators (3/3)
Web Pages – short list
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Euro-indicators/PEEIs on Eurostat website
Euroindicators/PEEIs data accessible in three different ways:
 The Euro-indicators/PEEIs page
showing the latest evolution of PEEIs for the euro area and the
European Union
 The Euro-indicators/PEEIs tables
a friendly overview of the latest and most important figures,
for European aggregates, Member States, EFTA countries and
acceding countries and main partners
 The European and national short term indicators database
EuroIND
access to around 60 000 long data series in various reusable formats
(text, HTML, Excel, etc.)
same geographical coverage as the tables
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An economic outlook
EuroIND and the Euro-indicators/PEEIs tables
are structured in eight main collections:
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Balance of payments
Business and consumer surveys
Consumer prices
External trade
Industry, commerce and services
Labour market
Monetary and financial indicators
National accounts
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The Euro-indicators/PEEIs tables
 Aggregated and national data are easily accessible from
the PEEIs page via a direct link to a TGM table
containing the last twelve periods
 Users have the possibility to:
– select several data (e.g. the two growth rates q/q-1 and
q/q-4 for quarterly data)
– display data in a graph (e.g. a bar graph) or in a map
– save the table data
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The European and national short term indicators
database EuroIND
 All relevant macro-economic information from different
domains available in a single place
 Easy navigation and data retrieval
 Complete picture of infra-annual economic outlook
 Regularly monitored
– Online monthly monitoring reports (State of Affairs)
 Continuously improved
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Metadata accessibility
 All published data are linked to metadata files in ESMS
format
 Euro-indicators/PEEIs tables contain “short descriptions”
i.e. synthetic information on main data characteristics
 PEEIs quality profiles soon available
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Metadata: short description
Data, including national ones
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Metadata files,
ESMS format
Last press release
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Thanks for the attention
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