Central Statistical Office of Poland 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

Central Statistical Office of Poland The role of indicators in a changing Europe (1) 2 Inclusive growth Sustainable growth Inteligent growth Europe 2020

Central Statistical Office of Poland The role of indicators in a changing Europe (2) 3 Convergence Territorial co-operation Competitiveness Cohesion policy

Central Statistical Office of Poland Key question 4 Do we measure what we really want to measure? Production indicators Quality-of-life indicators Summary indicators Welfare indicators

Central Statistical Office of Poland GDP and beyond: Measuring progress in a changing world 5 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

Central Statistical Office of Poland Stiglitz Report 6 HDI human capital (knowledge, well-being) social capital (public trust) social stratification (Gini index etc.) sustainable development environmental accounts (ecological footprint etc.) generational accounts

Central Statistical Office of Poland Synthetic vs. chosen singular indicators 7 easier to read but harder to interprete impossible to use at lower territorial levels Syntethic indicators question of choice of the most significant indicators better characterising specific problems Singular indicators

Central Statistical Office of Poland Significant details accessibility vs. affordability (e.g. Internet) quantity vs. quality (e.g. education) methodological differences, especially at LAU levels 8

Central Statistical Office of Poland Policies monitoring system – need for change (1) 9 Newly built roads [km] Indicators of investments realisation Improvement of road accessibility Improvement of public services accessibility Indicators of impact

Central Statistical Office of Poland Policies monitoring system – need for change (2) 10 Roads [km] Schools, libraries, WTPs etc. [numbers] Water supply, grid etc. [km of network] Objective approach Spatial analysis of impact Overlapping effects Spatial approach

Central Statistical Office of Poland Policies monitoring system – need for change (3) 11 well measured currently States problems with measuring both the scale of phenomenon and the direction of stream, e.g. migration goods flow Streams

Central Statistical Office of Poland Changing Europe (territory) 12 Functional areas Cross-border areas Metropolitan areas Labour market functional areas Environmental functional areas

Central Statistical Office of Poland 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 13

Central Statistical Office of Poland How to measure immeasurable? spatial order landscape attractiveness climate as a quality-of-life factor cultural heritage lifestyle social capital 14

Central Statistical Office of Poland Imperfect indicators or/and imperfect distribution? 15

Central Statistical Office of Poland 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 16

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