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Project Plan Workpackage 1 (Indicators)

Project ESSNet GVC

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Sponsor : Eurostat (MEETS project)

Author : Martin LuppesApproved by : ESSNet Co-ordination Statistics DanmarkVersion : 1.0 p1Date : 23 mei 2012

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Table of Content

1 Introduction..................................................................................................11.1 Goal of this document.....................................................................11.2 Scope of the document....................................................................11.3 Definitions, acronyms and abbreviations...........................................11.4 References.....................................................................................2

2 Executive summary......................................................................................33 Initial Business Case....................................................................................4

3.1 Reason to start WP1.......................................................................43.2 Benefits.........................................................................................43.3 Costs and time schedule..................................................................5

4 Project Definition.........................................................................................64.1 Background of the project...............................................................64.2 Results..........................................................................................64.3 Approach and phases of the project..................................................74.4 Scope of the project........................................................................84.5 Conditions and limitations.............................................................114.6 Relations with other projects..........................................................11

5 Organisation Structure..............................................................................125.1 Members of the ESSNet Steering Group.........................................12

6 Initial Project Planning..............................................................................146.1 Conditions...................................................................................146.2 External dependencies...................................................................146.3 Products......................................................................................146.4 Project Planning...........................................................................176.5 Planning Assumptions...................................................................176.6 Required resources...................Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.6.7 Tolerances in planning..............Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.6.8 Progress Reports..........................................................................17

Annexes...............................................................Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.

1 Quality plan..............................................Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.1.1 Quality Control........................Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.1.2 Configuratie- en wijzigingsbeheerFejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.

2 Project Archive.........................................Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.

3 Product Descriptions.................................Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.3.1 Product A................................Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.3.1.1 Description..............................Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.3.1.2 Criteria for Acceptance.............Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.3.1.3 Quality Assessment..................Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.

4 Graphical Representation of the Project Planning.....Fejl! Bogmærke er ikke defineret.

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1 Introduction

1.1 Goal of this document

The goal of this document is to realise full commitment of the Steering Group ESSNet GVC and the partners for the work to be done within the ESSNet GVC Work Package on Definition of Globalisation Indicators (further referred to as WP1 Indicators), for the period May 2012 until December 2013.

1.2 Scope of the document

This document describes the organisation and planning of the work within WP1 for the period 2012 - 2013 in order to:

1. allocate the participants budgets for WP1 for specific and well described tasks, and

2. to adhere to a planning based on consensus for the duration of the project, within the boundaries set by the MB Grant ESSNet GVC.

1.3 Definitions, acronyms and abbreviations

Term Description

ESSNet GVC European Statistical System Network Global Value Chains

Reference Indicators Also known as ‘Basic’ indicators on globalisation available on EU-27 level within Eurostat

Supplemental Indicators

Additional indicators on globalisation available at country level, based on standard data sources

Experimental Indicators

Indicators on globalisation available at country level, based on micro data linking of standard and experimental data sources

WP1 Work Package 1: Definition of Indicators

WP2 Work Package 2: Implementation GVC Survey

WP3 Work Package 3: Micro data linking

WP4 Work Package 4: Integration FATS

WP5 Work Package 5: Dissemination & publication of results

MB Grant ESSNet Multibeneficiary Grant Agreement on the ESSNet GVC (DK, Fi, NL, N, P, Ro, Fr)

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1.4 References

1. Supply of Statistical Services for the Improvement and Development of Globalisation, Structural and Sustainable Development Indicators, Themes: Globalisation, Good Governance and Global Partnership, 2010, Final Report prepared for European Commission (Eurostat), IDEA Consult NV, Brussels.

2. The Impact of Globalization on National Accounts, 2011, United Nations, New York/Geneva.

3. External Study on the Identification of Statistical Indicators that need to be adopted due to the Globalisation Process, 2011, Draft Report Eurostat.

4. ESSNet Multibeneficiary Grant Agreement on Measuring Global Value Chains (document 10 June 2011), Luxembourg/Copenhagen.

5. Report from the Commission tot the European Parliament and the Council on the on the implementation of Decision (EC) No 1297/2008/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on a Programme for the Modernisation of European Enterprise and Trade Statistics (MEETS), 11.1.2011 COM (2010) 813 Final, Brussels.

6. Annotated Table of Content Draft WP1 Definition of Indicators, Paper presented at the Oslo Steering Group Meeting, version 2, 2012, Heerlen.



2 Executive summary

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The WP1 Indicators is part of the of the ESSNet Global Value Chains project. This project, defined and granted by Eurostat, aims to strengthen the ESS capacity (conceptually and methodologically) to measure economic globalisation and the globalisation of business and to concretely establish statistical evidence on the increasingly globalised ways of doing business and organisation of the enterprises and the impacts on the possibilities for Europe to create new jobs and sustainable growth.

The project started December 2011 (Kick off The Hague) and ends December 2013. Seven countries participate in this workpackage. Statistics Netherlands is the lead country. Five reports will be delivered during the course of the project, of which a joint report is foreseen in August 2013.

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3 Initial Business Case

3.1 Reason to start WP1

The WP1 Indicators is part of the of the ESSNet Global Value Chains project. This project, defined and granted by Eurostat, aims to strengthen the ESS capacity (conceptually and methodologically) to measure economic globalisation and the globalisation of business and to concretely establish statistical evidence on the increasingly globalised ways of doing business and organisation of the enterprises and the impacts on the possibilities for Europe to create new jobs and sustainable growth.

The project is managed by a Steering Group involving representatives of the NSI’s of Denmark, Finland, Norway, Portugal, France, Romania and the Netherlands. The project is structured in six work packages of which Work Package 1 on economic globalisation indicators will:

1) Identify and develop a set of standardised indicators on economic globalisation. These have to be collected and published as reference indicators within the European Statistical System, subject to political approval.

2) Identify a set of supplemental indicators which could be collected to measure more industry specific elements of the globalisation process utilising existing statistical sources.

3) Identify possible experimental indicators based on micro data linking.

The main reason for including a work package on economic globalisation indicators in the ESSNet on Measuring Global Value Chains is the need for substantially upgrading the capacity of the European Statistical System (ESS) to cover the developments in globalised business in order to fulfil users’ requests for shaping future policy.

The development work, which will be carried out in WP1, is considered to add substantially to the capacity of the ESS to cover globalised business – and to the establishment of statistical evidence on this, requested by the users for future policy shaping. The development of globalisation indicators will be carried out in close contact with the most important international bodies, such as the OECD and the UN.

3.2 Benefits

The results of the project WP1 Indicators will enable the policy makers to make better informed decision and to monitor the globalisation/internationalisation of economies by developing and providing indicators on economic globalisation.



3.3 Costs and time schedule

Statistics Netherlands has extensive experience in researching globalisation of business, and Statistics Netherlands will serve as the lead country in this WP. All other partners in the ESSNet project will participate in this WP.

Costs are expressed in working days per participants. For more details on costs and planning we refer to the MB Grant Agreement. See table below.

The project is scheduled in 2012 - 2013. For more details on planning see chapter 6 of this document.

Work package in number of days

Participants/co-beneficiaries

WP1

1. Denmark 75

2. Finland 55

3. Norway 55

4. Netherlands 210

5. Portugal 55

6. Romania 55

7. France 55

TOTAL 560



4 Project Definition

4.1 Background of the project

Within the MEETS program 2009 and 2010 a project was launched aiming on the development of economic indicators on globalisation, which mainly was based on the OECD Handbook on Economic Globalisation Indicators. A first set of globalisation indicators has been put together and made available online on the Eurostat website. Furthermore a study on the practical implementation of indicators specified in the OECD Handbook on Economic Globalisation Indicators has been carried out of which the results feed into the work of the ESSNet GVC (by decision of the ESSC in 2010). The objectives of this former work are still in place for the work to be carried out in the work packages of the ESSNet GVC: to calculate and disseminate indicators where possible, and to identify the potential for collecting indicators that are not yet available.

4.2 Results

WP1 will identify and develop a set of standardised indicators on economic globalisation to be collected and published as reference indicators within the European Statistical System (ESS). This work will be based on results from the feasibility study assessing already available statistics to be used as basis for the implementation of the indicators and the OECD Economic Globalisation Indicators. The action will test the feasibility for the participating National Statistical Institutes to provide the required indicators and the general feasibility for the ESS to provide the indicators will be discussed at the proposed workshop.

WP1 provides five deliverables, being four reports on the several subtasks of the project and one joint final report:

1. D1.1 Report on available statistics and feasibility of providing such globalisation indicators data, including test data.

2. D1.2 Report containing description of data set structure and contents and supporting guidelines for this.

3. D1.3 Report on supplemental indicators, including test data.

4. D1.4 Report on experimental micro data linking indicators, including test data and implementation guidelines.

5. D1.5 Final, joint assessment report on sets of globalisation indicators



4.3 Approach and phases of the project

This project is based on six phases which are interrelated, both sequential (in time) as well as regarding the topic and concepts:

1) The initial phase aims at developing and approving a framework, defining the scope, organising the work and dividing the different tasks among the project members. The main activity is exploring the theme of economic globalisation indicators and its embedding in the EU and national policies. This means selecting and exploring the relevant academic literature and analyzing the initiatives by institutes like UN/ECE, OECD, the IMF, WTO, the World Bank and Eurostat.

2) Reference indicators phase: indicators, which fit within the in the initial phase defined scope of economic globalisation (see 4.4) and which are incorporated by the NSI’s in the European Statistical System1, will be identified and standardised into a set of reference indicators. The OECD Economic Globalisation indicators and the Eurostat project by Michaela Grell are main input for this phase of the project. Identification of these indicators occurs at ESS level. Item for discussion: do we consider all NSI’s in the ESS? Or only the EU-27? EU-27 + EFTA? Candidate countries?

3) Data set structure phase: This phase runs more or less parallel to the reference indicators phase. Objective is to find and agree on a method and structure for presenting the indicators in this project.

4) Supplemental indicators phase: in this phase those indicators will be identified that are available within the National Statistical Institutes in the ESS (see item 3) and which fit within the scope of economic globalisation indicators (see 4.4), but which are not (yet) standardised in the ESS. Identification of these indicators occurs at NSI level.

5) Experimental indicators phase: new indicators for economic globalisation can be created by linking different types of statistical registers on micro level (i.e. enterprise level). These indicators are not standard available within the ESS. Several initiatives have been developed within the NSI's and one joint European MDL project in the field of economic globalisation has taken place in 2010-2011. In this phase possible experimental indicators based on MDL will be identified and described.

6) Concluding phase: joint assessment of sets of globalisation indicators, feasibility and methodology.

1 ESS partners are: Eurostat, EU-27, European Central Bank, EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland), Candidate countries (Croatia, FYROM, Turkey, Montenegro), UN-ECE



All project members work together in these phases, lead by CBS and in close cooperation with the Steering Group. The results of each of these phases will be described in the reports mentioned in 4.2 and presented at the interim and final workshops.

4.4 Scope of the project

An important activity at the beginning of the project is determination of the scope: what dimension of globalisation has to be subject of the project and which domain of units are addressed. The IDEA report describes many dimensions of globalisation such as a cultural, social, environmental or economic dimension. In a statistical sense these dimensions refer to (the behaviour) of different types of actors such as persons, households, enterprises, government institutions or even non-institutional or non-individual units (e.g. means of transport, infrastructure).

As agreed in the Oslo Meeting and the subsequent correspondence on the document Table of Content (document 13 March 2012) the scope is outlined by:

1. the economic dimension of globalisation. This refers to the generally accepted main driver of the globalisation process (#references). This dimension finds its mainspring in international trade, foreign direct investments and capital movements, activities of MNE, and the production and international diffusion of technology (R&D). This criterion guides the selection of themes and indicators (and their constructing variables).

2. the enterprises and enterprise groups involved in economic globalisation. These are the statistical units represented in the Business Registers with the NACE code on non-financial business economy: NACE Rev.2. section B to N, excluding K. In the context of our project economic globalisation refers to cross-border behaviour of enterprises where borders are limited to national country borders. This criterion guides the selection of the proper domains of industry.

3. the characteristics of the units in the non-financial business economy. Not all characteristics available at country or EU level are relevant for the description or analysis of economic globalisation. These characteristics have to be established for each type of indicator sets. For example, reference indicators use prescribed breakdowns following standard regulations and recommendations within the ESS, whereas experimental indicators may use breakdowns based on country specific data availability and different policy demands. This criterion guides the selection of the relevant breakdowns.



Themes of the framework

After discussions on the Oslo presentation and the subsequent individual reviews of the proposed framework we concluded that the framework of WP1 consists of three domains of information referring to 1) indicators of economic globalisation, 2) impact of economic globalisation and 3) the analytical breakdowns.

The extent in which information on these domains is available, depends on the type of indicators. For example, when looking at impact of economic globalisation, it is not likely to be able to relate this to the indicators of economic globalisation as reference indicators are defined and aggregated at country level. This is a logical consequence of the fact that information for reference indicators in most or all cases is not constructed on basis of linked microdata. This is more likely in case of the experimental indicators.

The themes as defined by the framework thus far (see ToC version 2):

1) Indicators of economic globalisationa. International trade (goods and services)b. International investment (inward and outward)c. GVC and international organisationd. R&D and technology

2) Impact of economic globalisationa. Employmentb. Business dynamicsc. Economic growth

3) Analytical breakdownsa. Enterprise characteristicsb. International orientationc. Periodd. Other (region, combined classifications like BEC, business

functions)

Indicator type

In their handbook on economic globalisation indicators the OECD distinguishes three types of indicators, and as such this categorisation is also adopted in this project. However, the OECD categorisation is based on voluntary co-operation (whereas OECD has no direct mandatory power regarding national statistics). We incorporate the mandatory or compulsory element of the EU in national statistics in our working definitions of indicator types:

1) Reference indicators are the most commonly used indicators, and are necessary for any analysis of economic globalisation within the EU domain and other relevant parts (OECD, UN/ECE, EFTA) of the world



economy. For this type of indicators EU member countries are legally bound to produce basic variables. This is not necessarily the same as an indicator: an indicator can be represented by a single variable, or is based on a numerical combination of more than one variable. In practice, a significant share of the variables is produced on basis of different regulations and recommendations like FATS, Business Register, Trade, etc. One important aspect within in this domain is then to define and derive indicators on basis of the existing data within the ESS. A variable or a combination of variables which is not covered by this legal status, should be considered supplemental or experimental.

2) Supplemental indicators provide additional information on the structure and process of economic globalisation. In the present context, these indicators are mainly based on variables within the ESS and the member states not used for reference purposes.

3) Experimental indicators “address issues that exhibit a growing importance in the context of globalisation but where statistical concepts and methods require further work (e.g. new forms of international economic alliances).” (OECD, 2005). For the construction of this type of indicators micro data linking is the most prominent approach. It also includes variables and indicators which are, in theory, desirable but may be difficult or costly to implement in practice (e.g. activity of MNE’s abroad).

Analytical breakdowns

All indicators can be broken down into two different sets of stratifications, of which one set refers to the existing breakdowns of enterprise characteristics commonly used in European and global statistics, and one set which refers to the core of the framework of globalisation indicators: the international orientation of enterprises.

Enterprise characteristics

The existing breakdowns are defined within the regulations and recommendations used for official EU statistics (SBS, FATS, Trade, etc.). Data quality requirements as well as conceptual issues determine the possible extensions of these types of breakdowns. For example, globalisation processes are mainly influenced by the behaviour of large enterprises. This implies that detailed stratifications on size class might be of less importance than detailed industry stratifications.

International orientation

In order to monitor the international orientation of enterprises, micro data linking offers more possibilities. We define several characteristics for the international orientation of enterprises, which can be linked to the four business statistical themes as mentioned above. These combinations are all experimental



since micro data linking is required. The number of characteristics for the international orientation depends on the chosen level of detail. For example, international trade can be broken down to goods or services trade, import or export, one/two-way trader, and to destination.

4.5 Conditions and limitations

Agreement among the involved actors about the objectives and scope of the project is a condition for a successful project. Therefore the initial phase of this project is of highest importance. This project consists partly of research and development activities. Especially the phases about supplemental and experimental indicators can be characterised as explorative and experimental. Intrinsic to these types of development activities is a particular uncertainty about the foreseen results.

4.6 Relations with other projects

The project is part of the ESSNet on Measuring Global Value Chains and as such related to the other Work Packages within this ESSNet. There is a direct interdependency between WP1 and WP3 (on micro data linking). All three in WP3 foreseen deliverables feed into the WP1 work. D3.1 Preliminary recommendations, D3.2 Draft recommendations report and D3.3 Methodology support guidelines are input for, especially, D1.4 Report on experimental micro data linking indicators and for the final report D1.5. WP2 and WP4 are not related to WP1. In WP5 two workshops are foreseen which require contributions from WP1.

Furthermore the project is related to the GVC survey implementation project. Main objective in the project is gathering data through a business survey on the international organisation of enterprises and the sourcing of business functions. Outcomes of the project are expected to be delivered to Eurostat by the end of 2012 (by most participants; depending on individual contract). These results may be of interest for the (supplemental and) experimental indicators part of the WP1 project. Variables and metadata of this survey are already defined and can therefore be used in as input for the experimental indicators report which is foreseen to be delivered in January 2013. A detailed description of the actual data may not be available by then, but is not of highest priority.

The project is also related to a yet to be initiated project on Micro Data Linking. On the moment of writing this document a grant call for this project is expected in July 2012. Details of the MDL-project are not available yet. However, interdependencies in the experimental indicators work are foreseen here.



5 Organisation Structure

5.1 Members of the ESSNet Steering Group

Role Name

ESSNet coordinator & Representative of StatDK

Peter Boegh Nielsen

Representative of Eurostat Pekka Alajääskö

Representative of CBS Martin Luppes

Representative of StatFi Samuli Rikama

Representative of StatNo Lise Dalen McMahon

Representative of INE Paula Bordelo

Representative of INSRO Virginia Balea

Representative of INSEE Joëlle Chazal

Secretariat of the ESSNet

Role Name

Project support Casper Larsen

Project support Michael E. Nielsen

Project team WP1

Role Name

WP lead and Representative of Statistics Netherlands

Martin Luppes

Representative of CBS René Bongard

Representative of Eurostat Pekka Alajääskö

Representative of StatDK Michael E. Nielsen

Representative of StatFi Samuli Rikama

Representative of StatNo Julie Margrethe Slensvik



Representative of INE Paula Bordelo

Representative of INSRO Virginia Balea

Representative of INSEE Joëlle Chazal

Description of roles

Role Steering Group: 1) approval of deliverables and outputs, 2) guidance on issues and resolution of conflicts, 3) contacts to external stakeholders.

Role Secretariat: providing status documents and minutes of the meetings.

Role WP1 project leader: planning and organising of the work, informing Steering Group on progress, providing foreseen objectives and deliverables, contacts to external stakeholders.

Role WP1 project members: cooperate with project members on project progress and contribute to fulfilment of foreseen objectives and deliverables.



6 Initial Project Planning

6.1 Conditions

Changes in the planning of WP1 or in related project might affect next steps in the planning of WP1. Issues with (un)availability of team members might also cause delays, just as difficulties with planning the meetings as a result of busy agendas of the project members.

6.2 External dependencies

Vision Implementation Projects (Eurostat)

FRIBS initiatives (changes of regulations and recommendations)

Formal and practical issues concerning separate institutional responsibilities for parts of the countries’ statistical program

6.3 Products

6.3.1 Product Decomposition

The product decomposition refers to the specific actions, tasks and deliverables within the scope of the five separate products (D1.1 - D1.5). At this moment we have outlined the actions for the first report on reference indicators (see paragraph 6.3.2 for D1.1). These actions guide the division of labour amongst partners.

Based on the decisions of the Bucharest meeting this also will be done for the other products (D1.2 - D1.5).

Identification Product nameD1.1 Report on available statistics and feasibility of providing such

globalisation indicators data, including test data (August 2012)D1.2 Report containing description of data set structure and

contents and supporting guidelines for this (September 2012)D1.3 Report on supplemental indicators, including test data

(December 2012D1.4 Report on experimental micro data linking indicators,

including test data and implementation guidelines (January 2013)

D1.5 Final, joint assessment report on sets of globalisation indicators (June 2013)



6.3.2 Decomposition of D1.1

The core of the work for D1.1 is the setup of a spreadsheet with all the know information at the level of indicators. An indicator may be defined at macro, meso or micro level, and is based on at least one specific variable. So, we do not assume that an indicator equals one variable (this is seldom the case for indicators at macro level such as GDP, export intensity, etc.).

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D1.1 subtasks

Report on available statistics and feasibility of providing such globalisation indicators data, including test data

D1.1A Appoint and check reference indicators in OECD set in spreadsheet

D1.1B Identify other reference indicators (white gaps) and add them to the spreadsheet

D1.1C Fill out empty cells in spreadsheet per theme for reference indicators : 1) required data components;2) calculations of reference indicators;3) definitions;

D1.1D Data availability per theme (FDI, TRADE, R&D/Technology, MNEs): 1) identify variables for constructing required data components;2) add sources to variables required for constructing reference indicators;3) check extent of standardisation of variables in ESS (regulations, recommendations, other);4) identify required level of breakdown / detail5) check availability of variables on required level of breakdown per country and period (test data)

D1.1E Describe indicators identified in D1.1C on:1) meaning, definition, aim and rationale2) availability and sources3) metadata and quality aspects

D1.1F The report:1) Write introduction, scope and background of reference indicators in general. 2) Write conclusion and final assessment of reference indicators3) Edit and finalise D1.1 and send to SG for approval




D1.2 subtasks

Report containing description of data set structure and contents and supporting guidelines for this

D1.1A Summarise Vision Implementation StrategyD1.1BD1.1CD1.1DD1.1ED1.1F


To be determined


To be determined


To be determined



6.4 Project Planning

Phase Planned Start Date

Original Planned End Date

Proposed Planned End Date

Planned Hours

Initial December 2012

June 2012 June 2012

Reference indicators December 2012

August 2012

September 2012

Data set structure June 2012 September 2012

October 2012

Supplemental indicators September 2012

December 2012

February 2013

Experimental indicators September 2012

February 2013

June 2013

Concluding May 2013 July 2013 July 2013TOTAL: 4480

hours

6.4.1 Production Network Scheme

See schedule by Michael E. Nielsen (to be changed according to decision at TF meeting 2)

6.5 Planning Assumptions

6.6 Progress Reports & Documentation

Progress reports follow the procedures and formats set by the Steering Group ESSNet GVC and Statistics Denmark as coordinating country. Management by exception is applicable.

All documentation will be published at the ESSNet GVC Portal, subject to specific dissemination agreements (Coordination DK & Steering Group).



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