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New indicators at local
and regional levels – challenges
for National Statistical Institues (NSIs)
Dominika Rogalińska
Central Statistical Office of Poland
Regional and Environmental Surveys Department
New indicators – measuring progress in cohesion policy
Seminar of the Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy (COTER)
Perugia (Italy), 29th April 2011
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The role of indicators in a changing Europe (1)
Europe
2020
Inteligent
growth
Inclusive
growth
Sustainable
growth
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The role of indicators in a changing Europe (2)
Cohesion
policy
Competitiveness
Convergence
Territorial
co-operation
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Key question
Summary
indicators
Production
indicators
Do we measure what we really want to measure?
Welfare
indicators
Quality-of-life
indicators
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GDP and beyond: Measuring progress in a changing
world
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Challanges:
improved social cohesion, accessibility and affordability of basic
goods and services, education, public health and air quality
increasing poverty, more crime, depleting natural resources
complementing GDP with environmental and social indicators:
– comprehensive environmental index, including:
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climate change and energy use
nature and biodiversity
air pollution and health impacts
water use and pollution
waste generation and use of resources
– quality of life and well-being
near real-time information for decision-making
more accurate reporting on distribution and inequalities
thresholds for environmental sustainability
extending National Accounts to environmental and social issues
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Stiglitz Report
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HDI
human capital (knowledge, well-being)
social capital (public trust)
social stratification (Gini index etc.)
sustainable development
environmental accounts (ecological footprint etc.)
generational accounts
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Synthetic vs. chosen singular indicators
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Syntethic indicators
• easier to read but harder to interprete
• impossible to use at lower territorial
levels
Singular indicators
• question of choice of the most
significant indicators
• better characterising specific problems
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Significant details
accessibility vs.
affordability (e.g. Internet)
quantity vs. quality
(e.g. education)
methodological
differences, especially at
LAU levels
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Policies’ monitoring system – need for change (1)
Indicators of investments’
realisation
• Newly built roads [km]
Indicators of impact
• Improvement of road accessibility
• Improvement of public services accessibility
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Policies’ monitoring system – need for change (2)
Objective approach
• Roads [km]
• Schools, libraries, WTPs etc. [numbers]
• Water supply, grid etc. [km of network]
Spatial approach
• Spatial analysis of impact
• Overlapping effects
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Policies’ monitoring system – need for change (3)
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States
• well measured currently
Streams
• problems with measuring both the
scale of phenomenon and the
direction of stream, e.g.
• migration
• good’s flow
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Changing Europe (territory)
Cross-border
areas
Environmental
functional
areas
Functional
areas
Metropolitan
areas
Labour market
functional
areas
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In search for new indicators at regional level
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HDI at regional level
Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
Urban Audit indicators
EU-SILC indicators
Time Use Survey
Gateway Developmnet Index
„emotional capital” of cities
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How to measure immeasurable?
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spatial order
landscape attractiveness
climate as a quality-of-life factor
cultural heritage
lifestyle
social capital
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Imperfect indicators or/and imperfect distribution?
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Challanges for NSIs
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greater use of administrative sources
adapt of research programme to the
needs of local and regional authorities
continuation and updating of European
programmes (e.g. UA)
constant improvement and harmonization
of methodology (e.g. indirect estimation
methods)
constant development of dissemination
tools
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THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION
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