Third Joint EC – OECD Workshop on Business and Consumer Tendency Surveys
Brussels, 12-13 November 2007
Session 7
OUTCOMES OF OECD SURVEY ON
CURRENT NATIONAL
DISSEMINATION PRACTICES
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SURVEY OF NATIONAL BTS / COS
DISSEMINATION PRACTICES
Aims of presentation
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Provide brief background to the survey of national
dissemination practices
Summarise the main survey findings
Promote discussion on possible future work (if any)
on data dissemination
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SURVEY OF NATIONAL BTS / COS
DISSEMINATION PRACTICES
Background information
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Aim of survey to provide context for current session and identify
possible areas for future work on data dissemination / analysis
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Survey despatched on 10 September 2007
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Reponses received from 30 countries (35 institutes)
Austria; Bulgaria; Chinese Taipei; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech R; Denmark;
Estonia; Finland; France; Germany GfK+IFO); Greece; Italy; Japan
(BoJ+CO); Korea; Latvia; Luxembourg (BCL+STATEC): Malta;
Netherlands; Portugal; Romania; Slovakia; Slovenia; South Africa;
Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; UK (CBI+GfK); US (FRBD+UoM)
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SURVEY OF NATIONAL BTS / COS
DISSEMINATION PRACTICES
Background information
Collected very summary information on:
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Dissemination media currently used for organisation’s BTS /
COS statistics
Whether organisation provides analytical or descriptive text
outlining main features, etc – If yes, media used to
disseminate
Future plans to introduce major changes to dissemination of
BTS / COS statistics over next three years
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MAIN FINDINGS (1)
Media Used
Analytical
text
No.
%
No.
%
Paper publications
24
69
19
54
Internet – subscription database
5
14
4
11
Internet - free
18
51
8
23
Internet - other
13
37
14
40
Press release
28
80
24
69
CD-ROM
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-
-
-
Other
8
23
7
20
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MAIN FINDINGS (1)
Media Used
Analytical
text
No.
%
No.
%
Paper publications
24
69
19
54
Internet – subscription database
5
14
4
11
Internet - free
18
51
8
23
Internet - other
13
37
14
40
Press release
28
80
24
69
CD-ROM
-
-
-
-
Other
8
23
7
20
Includes email files to government, data to
respondents, interactive graphic facilities, press
conferences
Generally provide less detailed data than
in publications or subscriber service
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MAIN FINDINGS (2) – FUTURE PLANS
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8 out of 35 institutes outlined plans to introduce major
changes over next three years
Improvement of graphical presentation of data
Development of electronic newsletter through website
Provision of more activity disaggregations
Provision of more descriptive data – max., min., avg.
Development of extranet portal for members – to provide data +
possibility for data collection
Provision of commented survey results in free monthly electronic
bulletin
Re-grouping separate press releases into one main release
Production of an economy wide climate indicator
Publication of more comprehensive database, incl. their national data
on EC website
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MAIN FINDINGS (2) – OTHER COMMENTS
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General need to upgrade and update communication strategy in
disseminating survey data – value not fully exploited at the moment
No more paper publications – focus will be on Internet dissemination
(including press releases)
Encourage response by providing data to users
Their data are disseminated primarily by other organisations
(subscribers)
Press releases generally receive wide coverage. Data in it discussed
widely by policy makers, media, academics and business – date of
next PR given – also send to parliamentarians
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OTHER OBSERVATIONS (1)
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The more “analytical” text is provided in press
releases disseminated by national agencies
The content, format and use of graphs varies widely
Some agencies simply describe data as reported in
questionnaires – simple month-on-previous month /
year-on-year changes
Other agencies provide more of a “story” and provide
more subjective text on movements – “good”,
“dynamic”, “strong”, “sharp” – others use related
series (e.g. US FRBD, Germany GFK, UK GFK, Italy,
Netherlands)
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OTHER OBSERVATIONS (2)
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Most press releases are static – US FRBD contains
active links to more detailed data, graphs
Causal factors avoided in text
On-line databases range from simple PDF tables,
Excel spreadsheets, to more interactive databases
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POSSIBILITIES FOR FUTURE WORK /
DISCUSSION
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Identification of recommended practices for
presentation / dissemination of data in press releases
– including use of “analytical” text
Other suggestions?
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DISSEMINATION SURVEY
Thank you
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PRESS RELEASES (1)
Country Institute
Links provided
Bulgaria
http://www.cepd.gov.tw/encontent/m1.aspx?sNo=0009267&key=&ex=%20&ic=&cd=
Chinese Taipei
http://www.cepd.gov.tw/encontent/m1.aspx?sNo=0009267&key=&ex=%20&ic=&cd=
Czech Republic
http://www.czso.cz/eng/csu.nsf/informace/akpr102507.doc
Estonia
http://www.ki.ee/uudised/index.html
Germany – GFK
http://www.gfk.com/group/press_information/press_releases/001784/index.en.html
Germany - IFO
http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/page/portal/ifoHome/a-winfo/d1index/10indexgsk
Greece
http://www.iobe.gr/media/oik_syg/july_2007.pdf
Italy
http://www.isae.it/inglese/bpg/publication_view.asp?InfoID=11458&iabspos=2&vjob=vcat,13&vtkid
Korea
http://www.nso.go.kr/eng2006/e01___0000/e01b__0000/e01ba_0000/e01ba_0000.html
Netherlands
http://www.cbs.nl/enGB/menu/themas/dossiers/conjunctuur/publicaties/conjunctuurbericht/inhoud/default.htm?Language
switch=on
Portugal
http://www.ine.pt/portal/page/portal/PORTAL_INE/Destaques?DESTAQUESdest_boui=6016579&D
ESTAQUESmodo=2
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PRESS RELEASES (2)
Country Institute
Links provided
Slovak Republic
http://portal.statistics.sk/showdoc.do?docid=9686
Slovenia
http://www.stat.si/eng/novica_prikazi.aspx?ID=1224
South Africa
http://www.ber.ac.za/ber/index.aspx
Spain
http://www.mityc.es/Coyuntura/DatosDetalladosEspana/NotaIndustria/NotaIndustria.htm
UK – CBI
http://www.cbi.org.uk/ndbs/Press.nsf/0363c1f07c6ca12a8025671c00381cc7/cfa88ea2dc49b6a6802
5737d004c5010?OpenDocument
UK - GFK
http://www.gfknop.com/imperia/md/content/gfk_nop/newsandpressinformation/ccb/ccbpressreleasea
ugust2007.pdf
US - FRBD
http://dallasfed.org/data/outlook/index.html
US - UoM
https://customers.reuters.com/community/university/default.aspx?
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