20 May 2009 Indicators for long-term developments Unit D5 - Key Indicators for European policies Ottawa, May, 2009 Pieter Everaers, Eurostat

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments Sustainable development indicators Structural indicators PEEI’s

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments 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

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments Sustainable development indicators (2/3) Web Page – chapter “Demographic changes”

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments Sustainable development indicators (3/3) Table “Employment rate of older workers”

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments 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 themes whenever 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

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments Structural indicators (2/3) Commission Annual Progress report Germany performance compared to EU27

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments Structural indicators (3/3) Web Pages – short list

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments Euro-indicators/PEEIs on Eurostat website Euroindicators/PEEIs data accessible in three different ways: The Euro-indicators/PEEIs page showing 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 EuroIND access to around long data series in various reusable formats (text, HTML, Excel, etc.) same geographical coverage as the tables

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments 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

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments 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

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments 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

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments 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

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments Data, including national ones Metadata: short description

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments Last press release Metadata files, ESMS format

13 January 2009Indicators for long-term developments Thanks for the attention