Facilitating the Use of New Data Sources

for Official Statistics (B2G4S)

Francesca Kay

CIO, Central Statistics Office of Ireland

Roxane Silberman

Scientific advisor, CASD France

Wieteke Dupain

International programmes, knowledge and research manager, EUCLID network

Emanuele Baldacci

Director of Resources and CIO Eurostat

Florent Diverchy

Marketing Intelligence Manager, Produpress

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Context of the recommendation

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Business

Statistic Office

Data

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Data

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Re-use

Official

Statistics

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European data strategy (“Shaping Europe’s digital future”, Feb 2020)

“Make the EU a world leader in terms of data-driven society”

Data Act (Feb 2022)

Need for:

• Exhaustive data
• Qualitative data
• Relevant data
• Quickly available

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Impossible (or very costly) to produce alone:

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Need to reuse privately held data

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03/2021: Creation of the Commission Expert Group

04/2021-05/2022: Monthly meeting

06/2022: Final report formally adopted

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• Ms Silvina Bakardzhieva, Senior Legal Adviser at the Bulgarian Maritime Administration
• Mr Luis Cardo Jalón, Partner at Open Ideas, Spain
• Mr Florent Diverchy, Data Marketing Expert at Bisnode Belgium
• Ms Wieteke Dupain, International Programmes, Knowledge and Research Manager at Euclid Network, Netherlands
• Mr Paolo Garonna, Secretary General at the Italian Banking Insurance and Finance Federation, and University Professor, Italy
• Mr Christoph Gerlinger, Senior director at Bayer AG, Germany
• Mr David Gonzalez Martinez, Group Head of Big Data, Advanced Analytics and AI at Vodafone Business at Vodafone Group, Spain
• Mr David Dreyer Lassen, Prorector, professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Mr Emmanuel Letouzé, Marie Curie Fellow, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain and Founder Data-Pop Alliance
• Mr Erik Wetter, Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School for Economics and co-founder and Chairman of the Flowminder Foundation
• Mr Dimitris Zissis, Associate Professor at the Greek University of the Aegean and Head of R&D at MarineTraffic, Greece
• Mr Mart Mägi, Director General of Statistics Estonia
• Ms Geta Mitrea, Lecturer PhD at the National Defence University Carol I, Romania
• Ms Felicia Pelagalli, Founder and CEO of Culture srl – Data, AI and Communication
• Mr Dominik Rozkrut, President of the Polish Statistical Office
• Mr Geert Somers, Attorney-at-law Partner at Timelex, Belgium
• Ms Sandra Teixeira, Head of Strategy and Product Innovation at GLINTT, Portugal
• Ms Kaisa Vent, Head of Methodology Team Positium OÜ
• Mr Stefaan Verhulst, co-founder of and Chief of R&D at The GovLab, New York University
• Ms Susanna Zaccarin, University Professor at the University of Trieste

Academics

Legal

Business

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Mariana Kotzeva,

Director-General of Eurostat

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“Create a European model of Data Reuse”

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Content Overview

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General principles

• Official statistics as public good
• Involvement of all stakeholders

(Offices-Businesses-Citizens)

• open participatory mechanisms
• balanced consultation mechanisms
• agile decision process on statistics
• Integration of different data sources
• Differences in methodological maturity
• Open science practices
• Role statistical authorities in public literacy
• Data protection and security

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Data protection and security

Dr Daniel Solove

Taxonomy of Privacy

(George Washington University, 2006)

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Interaction between �private data holders �and statistical authorities

• Requirement for private data holders to collaborate
• under certain conditions and safeguards
• Reasonable and proportional requirements
• Data reuse modalities based on agreement
• Business interest safeguards
• Fair dealing with private data holders costs

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Enablers

• Data stewardship functions at organisations
• Data stewards for the public sector

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An open process

• Engaging with citizens and businesses
• Engaging with researchers
• Improving the institutional environment
• Improving the approach to data
• Set up balanced partnerships

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Engaging with citizens and businesses

• Participatory mechanisms for citizens
• Educational role of statistical authorities

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Engaging with researchers

• Strategy collaborative research
• Multi-party research agreements
• Building trust and collaboration in research

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Improving the institutional environment

• Central data reuse on behalf of the ESS in some cases
• Common services and shared infrastructures
• Need for investments and proper funding
• Data stewardship functions

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The approach to data

• Harmonisation at EU and global level
• Security and confidentiality
• Reassessment of ESS quality framework
• Development of methodological framework
• Openness to private sector processing methods

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Balanced partnerships

• Balanced partnership approach
• Non-financial incentives
• Requirements and safeguards for data reuse
• Cost model and compensation

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Engaging with citizens and businesses

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Panel Discussion

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Francesca Kay

Statistics Office of Ireland

Roxane Silberman

CASD France

Wieteke Dupain

EUCLID network

Emanuele Baldacci

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Florent Diverchy

Produpress

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