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Community innovation survey 2018 (CIS2018) (inn_cis11)

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Compiling agency: CZECH STATISTICAL OFFICE

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The Community Innovation Survey (CIS) is a survey about innovation activities in enterprises. The survey is designed to collect the information on different types of innovation,  various aspects of the development of an innovation, objectives of innovation activities, sources of information, public funding or expenditure on innovation.  It is aim is to measure the innovativeness of sectors and enable the analysis of the factors of innovation.

 The CIS provides statistics by type of innovators, economic activities and size class of enterprises. The survey is currently carried out every two years across the EU Member States, EFTA countries and EU candidate countries.

 

In order to ensure comparability across countries, Eurostat together with the countries developed a Harmonised Data Collection (HDC) questionnaire accompanied by a set of definitions and methodological recommendations.

 

CIS 2018 concepts and its underlying methodology are based on the Oslo Manual (2018) 4th Edition

 

New review of the CIS2018  aims to meet several objectives :

1: Reduce subjectivity and biases in the main CIS indicators

2: Improve reporting about innovation activities and capabilities in the firm

3: Ensure international comparability (including compliance with the OM4)

4: Broaden the basis CIS information on enterprise management

5: Take better account the diversity of enterprises in the EU

6: Improve reporting about external drivers and enablers of innovation

7: Improve timeliness

8: Ensure the feasibility of data collection

9: Ensure continuity with the CIS 2016

10: Improve reporting about the output and impact of innovation

 

CIS2018 is conducted under Commission Regulation No 995/2012. This Regulation defines the mandatory target population of the survey referring to enterprises in the Core NACE economic sectors (see section 3.3.) with at least 10 employees. Further activities may be covered on a voluntary basis in national datasets. Most statistics are based on the 3-year reference period (t, t-1, t-2), but some use only one calendar year (t or t-2).

 

Please consider CIS t to be the survey that refers to the same year of the quality report and CIS t-2 to be the previous survey e.g.: CIS  2018= CIS t then, CIS t-2=CIS 2016

8 February 2021

The description of concepts, definitions and main statistical variables is available in CIS 2018 European metadata file (ESMS) Results of the community innovation survey 2018 (CIS2018) (inn_cis11) in Eurostat database.

The statistical unit is an enterprise which corresponds to the legal unit with the identification number given by the Business Register.

Core target population are all enterprises in CORE NACE activities (see 3.3.1) with 10 or more employed persons.

The geographic area to which the measured statistical phenomenon relates is Czechia (NUTS1) for all variables (data) and NUTS2 for selected (main) variables (data).

For CIS 2018, the time covered by the survey is the 3-year period from the beginning of 2016 to the end of 2018.

Some questions and indicators refer to one year — 2018.

The list of indicators covering the 3-year period and referring to one year according to the HDC is available in the Annex section of the European metadata (ESMS). 

Accuracy in the statistical sense denotes the closeness of computations or estimates to the exact or true values. Statistics are not equal with the true values because of variability (the statistics change from implementation to implementation of the survey due to random effects) and bias (the average of the possible values of the statistics from implementation to implementation is not equal to the true value due to systematic effects).

CIS indicators are available according to 3 units of measure:

 

NR: Number for number of enterprises and number of persons employed.

THS_EUR: Thousands of euros. All financial variables are provided in thousands of euros, i.e. Turnover or Innovation expenditure.

PC: Percentage. The percentage is the ratio between the selected combinations of indicators.

Operations performed on data to derive new information according to a given set of rules.

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CIS is conducted and disseminated at two-year interval in pair years.

The timeliness of statistics reflects the length of time between data availability and the event or phenomenon they describe.

No significant problems of comparability between regions at the level NUTS 2 of Czechia. The stratification of the sample is set to eliminate possible problems regarding comparability between regions at the NUTS 2.

Data collected by this survey are internationally comparable because this survey respects standards described in Oslo manual (OECD, 2018) and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 995/2012 of 26 October 2012, laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Decision No 1608/2003/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the production and development of Community statistics on science and technology.

Due to important methodological changes in CIS 2018 driven by Oslo Manual 2018, the data 2018 cannot be directly compared with previous CIS waves.