The need for timely official statistics. The COVID-19 pandemic as a driver for innovation

Sofie de Broe; Olav ten Bosch; Piet Daas; Gert Buiten; Ben Laevens; Bert Kroese

doi:10.3233/SJI-210825

The need for timely official statistics. The COVID-19 pandemic as a driver for innovation

Sofie de Broe, Olav ten Bosch, Piet Daas, Gert Buiten (Corresponding author), Ben Laevens, Bert Kroese

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This paper discusses how Statistics Netherlands managed to respond quickly with a range of new outputs to the sudden increase in the need for statistical information following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It describes the innovation process already in place, as well as the innovations in response to the pandemic. This is followed by a discussion of what made speedy innovation and implementation possible, after which lessons are drawn in order to maintain the ability to react quickly to future policy questions. One important success factor is the combination of new data sources with already existing statistics for calibration.

The developments at Statistics Netherlands can be seen as a case study. Several other NSIs also accelerated innovation after the outbreak of the pandemic, such as the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the British Office for National Statistics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1221-1227
Number of pages	7
Journal	Statistical Journal of the IAOS
Volume	37
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/SJI-210825
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2021

Keywords

COVID-19 Pandemic
National Statistical Institutes
crisis management
innovation
new output
official statistics

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