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Barteld Braaksma
Access to data sources for official
statistics in The Netherlands
Mission of the European Statistical System
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“We provide the European Union, the
world and the public with independent
high quality information on the
economy and society on European,
national and regional levels and make
the information available to everyone
for decision-making purposes, research
and debate.”
Presupposes availability of adequate data sources
Legal situation for statistics in NL
Statistics Act (2003/2017)
– Grants free access to government registers
– Obliges to use registers instead of surveys where possible
– Allows to collect additional data
– Gives full control on methods to be used to DG CBS
Administrative decree on data collection (2003/2016)
– Specifies organisations from which data can be collected
– Specifies categories of data that can be collected
– Does not include data on individual customers and users
Various generic regulations (EU+NL) apply as well!
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Is the time of statistics over?
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy
(National Statistician UK)
Big data- opportunities for official statistics?
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New statistics
More geographical detail
Improved timeliness
Burden reduction
Higher efficiency
…but we can’t do it alone!
CBS big data partner network
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Social tension indicator based on Twitter
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https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/our-services/innovation/project/social-tension-indicator-based-on-social-media
Measuring the internet economy in The Netherlands
Main research question:
“What is the importance of the internet to the Dutch economy?”
The aim of the research project was fourfold:
1. Determine a pragmatic definition of “the internet economy”
2. Show the importance and size of the internet economy in NL
3. Show the possibilities of new measurement methods
4. Explain differences from regular statistics/concepts
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High-level interest in internet economy…
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Press conference with Henk Kamp, Dutch minister of Economic Affairs
High-level interest in internet economy…
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Prime minister Mark Rutte and Prince Constantijn (twitter and facebook)
Daytime population based on mobile phone data
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Which level of detail?
How to present? Is it useful?
Access issues with big data
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Reputation and image risks
Privacy and ethical questions
Commercial sensitivity
Cost of making data available
What about scientific use?
But also advantages! Contribution to society Relevant information for enterprises (TTP!) Better insights in own data for companies
Contracts and agreements (examples, non-exhaustive)
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For production
Scanner data- Major retail chains
Online housing market- jaap.nl
Social media- Coosto
For research and evaluation
Mobile phone data- Vodafone/Mezuro
Car traffic- TomTom
Websites- Dataprovider
Proposal to adapt Dutch legislation
Adapt data collection decree to include selected big data
Mobile phone traffic
Electronic financial transactions
Public transport chipcard
Smart meters/thermostats
Goes through Ministry of Economic Affairs
Trade-off between statistical use and burden for enterprises
Not an overnight process…
European coordination welcome (level playing field)!
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Hal Varian ‘on workers and managers’
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I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians (…) Because now we really do have essentially free and ubiquitous data. So the complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand that data and extract value from it. I think statisticians are part of it. (…) Managers need to be able to access and understand the data themselves.
The McKinsey Quarterly, Januari 2009:
• Chief economist at Google
• Emeritus professor at Berkeley