The Fourth Community Innovation Survey: 2002 2004

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The Fourth Community Innovation Survey 2002 -
2004

• History, Progress and the Future
• July 2005

Mark Pollard Jane Lloyd-Bowen Office for National
Statistics
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History

• Long relationship between ONS and DTI in
  producing CIS.
• 28,530 businesses with 10 employment
• Eurostat model questionnaire
• UK Innovation variables set by DTI
• Questionnaire/survey design DTI/ONS
• Responses fully validated
• ONS to deliver a clean data set for DTI
  processing

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Progress - response

• 2 Reminders sent out plus telephone reminding
• Response target 45
• Questionnaires despatched 31/03/2005 -28,530
• Overall Response at week 14 - 7th July 2005
  15908/28530 forms 55.76

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Progress report - response by region

• AA NORTH EAST 56.99
• BA NORTH WEST 55.03
• BB NORTH WEST 56.13
• DC YORK HUMB 56.92
• ED EAST MIDS 58.68
• FE WEST MIDS 58.63
• GF EASTERN 56.85

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Progress report - response by region

• GG EASTERN 57.45
• HH LONDON 51.74
• JG SOUTH EAST 57.63
• KG SOUTH WEST 57.62
• WW WALES 57.43
• XX SCOTLAND 55.93
• YY N IRELAND 46.45

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Progress - Current status

• Clearance of returned questionnaires
• 44
• 11 weeks left for response chasing and clearance
• Forecast response as at 30/09/2005
• 55.76
• Forecast clearance
• 45

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Progress - Issues

• Respondent comments
• definition of innovation not recognised
• enterprise not recognised by businesses
• simple language
• ambiguity
• etc

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Lessons and the Future

• Delivery of CIS 4 data set
• Post delivery review of CIS 4
• ONS project closure report covering contribution,
  issues arising, lessons learned and
  recommendations
• Feeding into Mini-CIS for 2006 in 2007 and
• CIS 5 - 2 or 3 years coverage in 2009

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Lessons learned

• ONS experience
• full documentation of processes and procedures
• systems written and working well
• experienced staff
• under utilising ONS skills i.e. results and
  analyses
• early notice of variables
• voluntary v statutory!!!

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Lessons learned

• questionnaire testing
• routing
• internal consistency
• definitions
• full cognitive interviewing
• revisions to validation checks
• early access to story lines
• industry specific examples of innovation
• information lines/websites

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Conclusion

• Step change in approach to collection and
  validation.
• Vastly improved data set and response.
• Improvements to take forward to Mini-CIS and
  CIS 5.