15:30 - 16:30
Special Topic Session
Room: Hegelsaal II
Chair:
Markku Lehtonen
Organiser/s:
Agnieszka Piasna
Processes of digitalisation, outsourcing and off-shoring have changed the way work and working lives are organised. The growth of the digital and platform economy gave rise to new forms of work, often referred to as crowd-platform-, or gig-work. The measurement of these new and non-standard forms of work poses major challenges for statistics’ producers and users. There is a lack of agreed names and shared definitions that would be fully operational, and there is a growing fragmentation of working lives that escape the existing definitions of work and employment. There are also technical challenges for data collection as the target population is relatively small, heterogenous and fragmented. Nevertheless, the topic is of great policy importance and there is a pressing need for official statistics that measure the extent and trends in non-standard forms of work. The panel will discuss and formulate users’ opinions on their needs and approaches to the topic, discuss existing findings and new methodologies.
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Statistics Flanders as a new regional statistical authority: a first SWOT-analysis
Roeland Beerten, Dries Verlet
Statistics Flanders, Brussels

Statistics Flanders is a new actor in the landscape of statistical authorities in Europe, created in 2016. The Flemish Statistics Authority forms the core of the decentralised network of official statistics and focuses on the development, coordination, production and publication of official statistics across all government departments and agencies. To realise this, a network approach was used in which the coordination is realised through joint working and decision-making.

The ultimate goal of Statistics Flanders is to offer reliable key figures and data about Flanders so that everyone has the right information to make well-founded decisions: citizens, organisations, companies and policy makers of the several policy levels. As official statistics producers we want to tell stories with numbers about Flanders: about the people who live and work here, our economy, our environment and about our place in the world. We want to put our official statistics at the core of an evidence-informed approach to policy making. We also aim to make data openly available so we maximise the use of our data.

Abstract
Presentation
Reference:
Th-STS04-01
Session:
Measurement of the digital economy and non-standard forms of work: challenges for statistics users and producers
Presenter/s:
Dries Verlet
Presentation type:
Oral presentation
Room:
Hegelsaal II
Chair:
Markku Lehtonen
Date:
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Time:
15:30 - 16:30
Session times:
15:30 - 16:30
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