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Community innovation survey 2022 (CIS2022) (inn_cis13)

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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. 

 

The CIS 2022 implements the concepts and methodology of the Oslo Manual 4th Edition revised in 2018. The changes that the CIS has undergone due to the revision of the manual and their impact on the indicators collected are described in the Statistics Explained article: Community Innovation Survey – new features. 

The legal framework for CIS 2022 is the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1092, which sets out the quality conditions and identifies the obligatory cross-coverage of economic sectors, size class of enterprises and innovation indicators. The target population is enterprises with at least 10 employed persons (sum of employees and self-employed persons) 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). 

31 October 2024

The description of concepts, definitions and main statistical variables will be available in CIS 2022 European metadata file (ESMS) Results of the community innovation survey 2022 (CIS2022) (inn_cis13) in Eurostat database.

The statistical unit of the German CIS 2022 is the enterprise as defined in the EU regulation and as implemented in the Business Register of the Statistical Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The sampling was carried out at the level of legal units. The observation unit was the legal unit, but respondents could also report at the level of the Statistical Unit Enterprise.

The reporting unit was determined using information from previous CIS waves, and by contacting complex enterprises in person (via telephone calls).

Process for obtaining results at Statistical Unit Enterprise level, for both qualitative and quantitative variables:

The representative approach was used. In case several responses were received from legal units of the same complex enterprise, the response by the representative unit (= largest unit with the same NACE division as the complex enterprise's NACE division) was used.

 

Core target population is all enterprises in CORE NACE activities (see 3.3.1) with 10 or more employed persons (sum of employees and self-employed persons).

The German CIS 2022 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 2022 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.

The national classification of East Germany and West Germany was used as a stratification dimension.

For CIS 2022, the time covered by the survey is the 3-year period from the beginning of 2020 to the end of 2022.

Some questions and indicators refer to one year — 2022.

The list of indicators specifying whether they cover the 3-year period or refer to one year according to the HDC will be 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.

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 introduced by Oslo Manual 2018, the data from 2018 onwards cannot be directly compared with CIS waves prior to 2018.