15:00 - 16:00
We-IPS09
Chair:
Joseph Sakshaug (Institute for Employment Research and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
Organiser:
Mojca Bavdaž (School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Measuring intangibles in firms: past experiences and future prospects of voluntary surveys
GIULIO PERANI, (Email)
ISTAT

Surveying business enterprises about their investments in intangible assets is quite a new field in economic statistics. The paper will review three pilot experiences in IA surveying by highlighting the main methodological differences among them and will explore – by analysing fresh evidence collected in a pilot of the Second Italian IA survey, planned early in 2021 – the effectiveness of methodological innovations to improve the outcome of IA surveys while keeping them voluntary for respondents.