Villa Vigoni 2009

Social Reporting in Europe
“Different Ways of Adding Meaning to Numbers”

 

Villa Vigoni Conference, March 22-24, 2009

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Sunday, March 22

Afternoon   Arrival of participants  
19:30   Dinner and Welcome by the Secretary General of Villa Vigoni, Prof. Gregor Vogt-Spira  

Monday, March 23

  Session I: Statistical Data and Narratives – The Process of Adding Meaning to Numbers (Chair: Heinz-Herbert Noll, GESIS, Mannheim)
09:15 Heinz-Herbert Noll (GESIS, Mannheim) Introduction  
09:30 – 11:00 Amedeo Cottino (Università di Torino) Data Interpretation: Facts and Values  
Bernhard von Rosenbladt (Infratest Sozialforschung, München) Adding Meaning to Numbers and Vice Versa: The Case of EU Benchmark Indicators presentation(135 KB)
Antonio Golini (Università di Roma, La Sapienza) A little about a lot – Making statistics relevant to media and policy presentation(63 KB)
11:00 – 11:30   Coffee Break  
11:30 – 12:15 Nicoletta Pannuzi (Istat, Rome) Potentials and Limitations of Data Interpretation in Official Statistics: The Case of Italy  
Doris Stärk (destatis, Wiesbaden) Adding Meaning to Numbers: Potentials & Limitations of Data Interpretation, the Case of Germany presentation(442 KB)
12:15 – 12:45   Discussion  
13:00   Lunch  
  Session II: Different Ways of Adding Meaning to Numbers in European Social Reports (Chair: Carla Collicelli, CENSIS, Rome)
14:15 – 15:15 Ruth Paserman (European Commission, Brussels) The Use and Interpetation of Indicators in the Open Method of Coordination  
Ulrich Bieber (BMAS, Bonn) The German Report on Poverty and Wealth. The Issue of Adding Meaning to Numbers in
Governmental Social Reporting
presentation(1.4 MB)3rd Report on Poverty and Wealth – Executive Summary(118 KB)
Stanislawa Golinowska (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) Numbers and Meaning: Diversity and Commonality in European Social Policies  
15:15 – 15:45   Discussion  
15:45   Coffee Break  
16:15 – 18:15 Rob Bijl (SCP, Den Haag) The research-policy nexus in social reporting – Adding meaning to numbers in social reporting presentation(395 KB)
Christian Suter (University of Neuchâtel) Adding Meaning to Numbers in the Swiss Social Report presentation(279 KB)
István György Tóth (TARKI, Budapest) „Adding meaning to numbers”: The (pragmatic/eclectic) approach of the Hungarian Social Reports presentation(510 KB)
Elisa Manna (CENSIS, Rome) Adding Meaning to Numbers in the CENSIS-Report presentation(1010 KB)
Roland Habich (WZB, Berlin), Heinz-Herbert Noll (GESIS, Mannheim) Adding Meaning to Numbers in the German Datenreport  
18:00 – 18:45   Discussion  
19:30   Dinner  

Tuesday, March 24

  Session III: Recent Developments in European Social Reporting and Plans for the Future (Chair: Heinz-Herbert Noll, GESIS, Mannheim)
09:15 – 09:45 Carlos Pereda (Colectivo Ioé Madrid) Presentation of “Barometro Social de Espana” presentation(30 KB)
09:45 – 11:00 Rob Bijl (SCP, Den Haag) Social Reporting in The Netherlands presentation
(402 KB)
10:45   Coffee Break  
11:15 – 12:30   European Social Reporting Network: Planning Future Collaboration  
13:00   Lunch and Departure