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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

Value added for organizations 

Description

Value added for a company (in terms of cost avoidance) because of involvement in a CS project

Domain

Economy

Qualitative/Quantitative

Quantitative 

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)

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)
  • For your organization, what is the value added of the citizen observatory focused on [CO topic] for your capital expenditure? (Cost avoidance due to CO - CAPEX)
  • For your organization, what is the value added of the citizen observatory focused on [CO topic] for your operating expenditure? (Cost avoidance due to CO (OPEX))
Indicator building
  • Cost avoidance due to CO (CAPEX/OPEX)
Availability of data

Low

Feasibility

Resource demanding 

Comments/caveats

This is part 3 of 3 re. CS demand side

Source of indicator definition

Wehn et al (2017; 2019; 2020)