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I want to measure the impacts of my initiative on the economy… 
…by assessing its impact on demand 

Aggregate indicator title

Conduct of business 

Description

Changes to costs and availability of essential inputs for a company to be able to participate in a CS project 

Domain

Economy

Qualitative/Quantitative

Quantitative & qualitative

Primary/Secondary data

Primary data

Source of data

Project partners, participants 

Time series

Yes, ex-ante/ex-post survey 

Unit of measurement (observation)

Absolute values & nominal 

Unit of analysis

Organization 

Analytical level (logic model)

Input, output, outcome, impact 

Links with indicators in other domains

N/A 

Data collection method(s)

Questionnaire that was filled in by project partners twice to collect data about baseline and economic impacts of the COs 

Data collection item(s)
  • Overall, what are the current costs of external inputs (e.g. data, public opinions, expert knowledge) that your organization needs in order to perform its function in relation to [CO topic]?
  • How easily available are these external inputs (e.g. data, public opinions, expert knowledge)? (example of efforts)
Indicator building
  • Cost of essential inputs (e.g. data, opinions, knowledge)
  • Availability of essential inputs (e.g. data, opinions, knowledge)
Availability of data

Low

Feasibility

Resource demanding 

Comments/caveats

This is part 2 of 3 re. CS demand side

Source of indicator definition

Wehn et al (2017; 2019; 2020)