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Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation (CC-ME)

We advise and support EU policy making through ex-post causal evaluation and data-driven microeconomic analysis.

  • Page | 10 Sep 2020
Policy Cycle - Data Preparation
Microeconomic Evaluation

This part refers to the process of collecting data necessary for the intervention evaluation. Even though this stage is not generally considered a specific phase of the policy cycle, it is strongly suggested to plan the data collection in advance, as the intervention is launched. Here you can find suggestions on the type of data source  to use for different evaluation processes, plus some documents illustrating the advantages of using administrative data in ESF evaluations.

Do you want to better understand which data sources can be used for your evaluation?

This material may help you:

  1. videotutorial on “Data collection, Data access and Data merging”.
     
Are you planning to use administrative data for CIE?

This material may help you:

  1. video on administrative data for evaluation: "What is administrative data?";
  2. guidance document on “How to use administrative data in ESF evaluation”;
  3. checklist on “How to use administrative data in ESF evaluation”;
  4. book on microdata for policy evaluation: “Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation - How Access to Microdata is Transforming Policy Design”  freely available.