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Community innovation survey 2020 (CIS2020) (inn_cis12)

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Compiling agency: ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH Mannheim (Centre for European Economic Research)

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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 types of innovation, processes of development of innovation like cooperation patterns, financing and expenditure, objectives of innovation activities or barriers for initiating or implementing innovation.

The CIS provides statistics by type of innovators, economic activity 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 develops a Harmonised Data Collection (HDC) questionnaire and drafts the methodological recommendations for implementation of each survey round. 

 

CIS 2020 is a second in a row to implement concepts and methodology of the Oslo Manual 4th Edition revised in 2018. The changes in the CIS driven by the revision of the manual and their impact on collected indicators are described in the Statistics Explained article: Community Innovation Survey – new features. 

 

The legal framework for CIS since 2012 is the Commission Regulation No 995/2012 that establishes the quality conditions for the data collection and transmission and identifies the obligatory cross-coverage of economic sectors, size class of enterprises and innovation indicators. The target population are enterprises with at least 10 employees classified in the core NACE economic sectors (see 3.3).  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 refer to the Annex section of the European metadata (ESMS) for details of the time coverage of collected indicators.

28 May 2024

The description of concepts, definitions and main statistical variables is available in CIS 2020 European metadata file (ESMS) Results of the community innovation survey 2020 (CIS2020) (inn_cis12) in Eurostat database.

The statistical unit of the German CIS 2018 is the legal unit according to the definition of legal unit in the Business Register of the Statistical Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

There are some deviations to this rule in case of large, complex enterprises that are active in different NACE divisions. For some of these large, complex enterprises, the statistical unit is the business unit that best matches the activities of the enterprise that fall under a single NACE division.

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

The German CIS 2018 covers all enterprises in the statistical population that are located within the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany.

There is not breakdown of CIS 2018 results by NUTS regions available. The only breakdown available is by Western Germany vs. Eastern Germany.

The microdata nevertheless contain information on the location of an enterprise by NUTS 3-digit level.

For CIS 2020, the time covered by the survey is the 3-year period from the beginning of 2018 to the end of 2020.

Some questions and indicators refer to one year — 2020.

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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Differently to the CIS in most other EU member states, the German CIS is conducted every year. Results are therefore published every year. Results of an innovation survey with the reference year t are usually released at the end of January of year t+2.

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

The same international standards, concepts and definitions (Oslo manual or Eurostat guidelines) have been applied for all geographical areas of Germany.

Due to important methodological changes driven by Oslo Manual 2018, CIS 2018 and CIS 2020 cannot be directly compared with previous CIS waves.