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New indicators at local and regional levels – challenges
for National Statistical Institues (NSIs)
New indicators at local and regional levels – challenges
for National Statistical Institues (NSIs)
Dominika RogalińskaCentral 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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dThe role of indicators in a changing Europe (1)
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Inclusive growth
Sustainablegrowth
Inteligentgrowth
Europe
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Convergence
Territorialco-operation
Competitiveness
Cohesion policy
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Do we measure what we really want to measure?
Production
indicators
Quality-of-life indicators
Summary
indicators
Welfare indicators
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dGDP 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:• 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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• 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)
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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)
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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)
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Functionalareas
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In search for new indicators at regional level
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?
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
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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