A glimpse into the businesses' use of internal and external data sources in decision-making processes
Topic of inquiry: Hunting for a constructive relationship between
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1. Topic of inquiry: Hunting for a constructive relationship between
businesses and business surveyors
Businesses have a double role in relation to business statistics. First, business statistics is of course based on data gathered from the enterprises and establishments. Next businesses are also one of the users of the statistics produced. In the third Blue-Ets workpackage named “Business perspectives related to NSIs' statistics” the guiding idea is that the more useful our statistics are for the businesses the more motivated business respondents will be to provide good quality data when they are sampled in our surveys; and in turn this will lead to better and more useful statistics for businesses (http://www.blue-ets.istat.it/index.php?id=39). We are, in other words envisaging a self-reinforcing positive, loop process.
Previous research indicates that it does not work this way yet. Generally, business respondents rate the statistics produced from the data they provide to be of very low relevance to their company (Hedlin, Lindqvist et al. 2008, Giesen, Morren et al. 2009). There can be several reasons for this. It may be difficult for business respondents to see that data they provide can be refined into products that add something that is not already there and which may be useful for their company. Focus groups with business respondents have also indicated that they often feel that they report inaccurate estimates and are surprised that the surveyors seldom take contact to have their data corrected (Haraldsen 2004, Haraldsen and Jones 2007). Moreover the main products created from business surveys are inputs to the national account and to different kinds of economic indexes. The prioritized target groups for these products
54 are probably not businesses, but politicians and opinion leaders who shape the economic policy and investors, stockbrokers and other players on the stock market arena. Finally, even if businesses use statistics based on their own data deliveries, the may not realize this or may not communicate it to those who act as respondents in their firm.
The purpose of workpackage 3 in the Blue Ets project is to address these questions. We do this from two angles. We take a top-down perspective and ask the statistical agencies and experts from business interest groups to evaluate how well fit the current statistical products are for businesses. And we take a bottom-up perspective by interviewing decision makers and respondents in businesses. The first of these inquires are already completed (Bavdaž, Giesen et al. 2011). In the present paper we present some preliminary results from the Norwegian part of the interviews made in businesses. Download 0.93 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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