CSO Statistics and Innovation: Burden, Costs, and Organizational Structure
Discover how the Central Statistics Office (CSO) focuses on burden reduction, cost management, and innovative statistics under the leadership of Steve MacFeely. Explore the CSO's high-level goals, organizational structure, and efforts in reducing administrative burdens. Learn about the EU legislation influencing data requirements and how the CSO adapts to domestic and international statistical mandates.
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Burden & Costs Steve MacFeely Director of Business Statistics & Innovation
Outline of Presentation 1. CSO 2. Burden Reduction 3. Costs 4. Blockages & Risks
CSO - Mandate Statistics Act, 1993 To collect, compile, extract and disseminate for statistical purposes, information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions in the State
CSO 5 High Level Goals 1. Improvement in the scope, quality and timeliness of our statistics 2. Minimising the burden on survey respondents 3. Increasing the use of administrative data for statistical purposes 4. Achieving greater efficiencies using best practices 5. Raising public awareness and use of statistics
CSO - Organisation Director General Assistant Director General Economic Statistics Assistant Director General Social & Demographic Statistics Cork Director Director IT & Corporate Services Cork Business Statistics and Innovation Cork Dublin National Accounts - Integration & Large cases unit Social Data Collection Structural Business Statistics (SBS) IT Corporate Systems National Accounts - Income Labour Market & Earnings Short Term Statistics (STS) IT Service Delivery National Accounts - Expenditure Income, Expenditure, Wealth & Modules Prices (incl. International Relations until 2011) Administration & Finance National Accounts - Government Social Analysis Agriculture, Transport & Tourism Human Resources Balance of Payments Analysis & Dissemination Corporate Projects Administrative Data, Methods & Quality Dissemination & Multi-theme Reporting Balance of Payments & Financial Sector Census Geography & Processing External Trade & Environment Demography & Census Outputs Census IT
Burden Reduction - Background 2007 European Commission - Action Programme for Reducing Administrative Burdens: reduce burden by 25% 2007 Business Regulation Forum Administrative Burden in Ireland costing business 2bn 2007 High Level Inter-Departmental Group on Regulatory Burden established 2008 Irish Government adopts 25% target ( 500m) 2008 Transforming Public Services 2010 Public Service Agreement 2010 - 2014
Burden Reduction EU Legislation Data Requirements Domestic EU/International
Burden Reduction Measurement (CSO & SCM) Standard Cost Model CSO Approach 2004 Pilot burden measurement 2010 SCM Report 10.8m (forms issued) 0.5% of total admin burden 2008 1st Report on Response Burden 6.7m (forms returned) 2010 Response Burden Barometer
Burden Reduction - Actions Internal - Reduce sample sizes - Re-engineer questionnaires/small business forms - Terminate surveys - Data matching - Reorganise production system External - Joint Surveys - Formal MOUs - Increased use of administrative data - Automatic data extraction - Statistical Infrastructure
Burden Reduction Forecasted change in NET burden 2006 EHECS, NES 2007 CIS, EHECS 2008 BERD, FATS, SPPI, IPI 2009 STI 2010 BEEU, ATF
Costs Expenditure million (2009) Productivity Agriculture Prices Services Industry & Building Sub-Total 1.43 2.08 3.26 2.42 9.19 2007 2010 Change Staff Outputs 188 196 165 210 - 16% + 12% PCO 0.96 1.27 + 32% CSO Total 48.50
Blockages to progress Poor statistical infrastructure: - Unique Business Identifiers - Postal/Spatial codes - Harmonised Accounting taxonomy
Risks Dependence on administrative data holders Data Protection legislation Ability to control staff profile No change in perception
