20 May 2009

Indicators for long-term developmentsUnit D5- Key Indicators for European policies

Ottawa, May, 2009Pieter Everaers, Eurostat

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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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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 themeswhenever 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

Structural indicators (1/3)Introduction

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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 pageshowing 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 EuroINDaccess 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:

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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Data, including national ones

Metadata: short description

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Last press release

Metadata files, ESMS format

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Thanks for the attention