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Finding & Understanding Regional Data: The EU 2020 Index and the EU

Social Progress Index

By Lewis Dijkstra Deputy Head of the Economic Analysis UnitDG for Regional and Urban PolicyEuropean Commission


Europe 2020 Strategy Targets

1. Employment2. R&D3. Education4. Climate change

and energy5. Poverty

• EU targets• National targets

(optional)• Regional and urban

variation


How do Member States score? 2010


Member States


Member States & Capital Regions


Member States & All Regions


Distance to 2020 targets

• Cohesion Policy support is highest in regions far from targets

• Good performance in most capital regions

• Regional variation calls for adapted strategies (but not regional targets)


More information

• See the Regional Focus 01/2015• Includes a national, regional and urban level

index• Measures both distance to national and EU

targets• Will be monitored over time

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/focus/2015_01_europe2020_index.pdf





EU Regional Social Progress Index

• A joint, three-year project with the Social Progress Imperative and Orkestra, the Basque Institute for Competitiveness

• Help regions learn from each other• Assess what a regions investment needs and

policy priorities are be• Can support Cohesion Policy programmes


The European Union Regional Social Progress Index

Basic Human needs

Nutrition and Basic Medical

Care

Water and Sanitation

Shelter

Personal Safety

Foundations of Wellbeing

Access to Basic Knowledge

Access to Information and Communications

Health and Wellness

Ecosystem Sustainability

Opportunity

Personal Rights

Personal Freedom and

Choice

Tolerance and Inclusion

Access to Advanced Education

Nutrition and Basic Medical Care1. Premature mortality(<65)2. Infant mortality

3. Unmet medical needs4. Insufficient food

Water and Sanitation5. Satisfaction with water quality6. Lack of toilet in dwelling7. Uncollected sewage8. Sewage treatment

Shelter9. Burdensome cost of housing10. Satisfaction with housing

11. Overcrowding

12. Lack of adequate heating

Personal Safety13. Homicide rate

14. Safety at night

15. Traffic deaths

Basic Human Needs

Access to Basic Knowledge16. Upper-secondary enrolment rate17. Lower secondary completion only18. Early school leavers

Access to Information and Communications19. Internet at home

20. Broadband at home

21. Online interaction with public authorities

Health and Wellness22. Life expectancy

23. General health status

24. Standardized cancer death rate

25. Standardized heart disease death rate26. Unmet dental needs

27. Satisfaction with air quality

Ecosystem Sustainability28. Air pollution-pm10

29. Air pollution-pm2.5

30. Air pollution-ozone31. Pollution or grime 32. Protected land (Natura 2000)

Foundations of Wellbeing

Personal Rights33. Trust in the political system

34. Trust in the legal system35. Trust in the police36. Quality of public services

Personal Freedom and Choice37. Freedom over life choices

38. Teenage pregnancy

39. Young people not in education, employment or training40. Corruption index

Tolerance and Inclusion41. Impartiality of government services42. Tolerance for immigrants

43. Tolerance for minorities

44. Attitudes toward people with disabilities45. Tolerance for homosexuals

46. Gender employment gap

47. Community safety net

Access to Advanced Education48. Tertiary education attainment

49. Tertiary enrolment

50. Lifelong learning

Opportunity


SPI raises awareness and interest in:• The three sub-indices • The individual

indicators• Scorecards to facilitate

comparisons with similar regions (GDP per head or same country)

• The changes over time (to be developed)


SPI is not for funding distribution

• Mixture of official and other sources (EEA, Gallup)• Indicators have different margins of error• Each step in the process of setting up a

composite indicator has a potential impact on the final index• Standardisation• Weights• Type of Aggregation


Next steps and more info

1. Scientific Board meeting chaired by Professor Enrico Giovannini (Dec. 2015)

2. In-depth sensitivity analysis of results 3. Revised and updated SPI in October 20164. Discussion of the SPI in the 7th Cohesion Report

Data on the REGIO Open Data Platform:https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/

https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/

https://cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu/


Questions

• Please contact• [email protected] or • [email protected]

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