Integration: knowing, measuring, evaluating 17-18 giugno 2013

1. Statistics for Policy Making
A European Perspective
Integration – knowing, measuring, evaluating
Rome 17-18 June 2013
Giulio Di Blasi – Policy Officer
DG Home Affairs

2. • Governments are very keen on amassing
statistics. They collect them, add them, raise
them to the highest power, take the cube root
and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must
never forget that every one of these figures
comes in the first instance from the village
watchman in India, who just puts down what he
damn pleases
• Josiah Stamp

4. What is my presentation about

5. Solid bridges

6. Watchmen

7. And traffic jams

9. In the Commission we use statistics
for:
• (a) Policy Making
• (b) Operations
• (c) Evaluation&Communication

10. Policy Making (1)
• The early school leaving rate in Italy remains
well above the EU average.
• The early school leaving rate declined further in 2012 – to 17.6%,
from 18.2% in 2011 – but remains markedly above the EU average of
12.8% and the Europe 2020 target of 15-16%. With a rate of 44% in
2011, third-country nationals weigh heavily on the overall early school
leaving score in Italy. While there is not yet evidence of a
comprehensive strategy to address early school leaving, short-term
action to tackle this issue could be taken through the Cohesion Action
Plan,19
• Commission Staff Working Document

11. Policy Making (2)
• The Commission proposes to move from the current system of annual
programming within a multiannual framework in line with broadly
defined political priorities to multiannual programming preceded by a
'policy dialogue'. At the start of the next Multiannual Financial
Framework, the Commission will initiate a single senior-level policy
dialogue on home affairs funding with the individual Member States
[…]
• By involving the central responsible authority of each participating
State and focusing on how it will use EU funding to contribute to
achieving all EU home affairs policy objectives, the policy dialogue will
lead to a better focus on objectives, results and impacts rather than
inputs and outputs.
• Building an open and secure Europe: the home affairs budget for 2014-2020

12. Operations
• Article 33
A mechanism for early warning, preparedness and crisis
management
•
• Where, based in particular on the information gathered by
EASO pursuant to Regulation (EU) 439/2010 the Commission
establishes that the application of this Regulation may be
jeopardised due to either the identification of a substantiated
risk of particular pressure on a Member State’s asylum system
and/or because of problems in the functioning of the asylum
system of a Member State the Commission, in cooperation
with EASO, shall make recommendations to that Member State
inviting it to draw up a preventive action plan. […]

13. Evaluation&Communication

16. The watchmen- Definitions

17. The watchmen- Data collectors

22. Solutions

25. Zaragoza
2010
EU
2020

26. To conclude

27. • Statistics play a crucial part in bridging the
knowledge gap and influence European policy
making but…
• (a) they need to be coherent
• (b) they need to be comparable
• (c) they need to be credible
• Therefore the European Commission is engaged
to build European Statistical Consensus with
common definition, upstream training and
analytical methodologies also on contextual
factors

28. THANK YOU
Giulio Di Blasi
European Commission
DG Home Affairs
giulio.di-blasi@ec.europa.eu