Chiara Carini, EuricseBuilding Research Capacity, Cape Town – 3 November 2013

OUTLINE

•Objective of the World Co-operative Monitor project

•Population under study

•Indicators

•Data collection

•Conclusions

OBJECTIVE OF THE

Collecting economic, organizational, and social data about co-operatives worldwide in order to represent

theco-operative sector in its organizational, regional,

and sectoral diversity.

OBJECTIVE OF THE

A tool for the co-operative sector

• Raising the profile of co-operatives within their own industries and countries, as well as internationally;

• Demonstrating the economic and social importance of co-operatives and mutuals; and

• Highlighting good practice and highlighting successful co-operative business models and innovative approaches.

OBJECTIVE OF THE

A tool for researchers

• Building a periodically updated database about the largest co-operatives worldwide;

• Integrating projects aiming at collecting, organizing and analyzing data relating to co-operatives at national, regional or sectoral levels; and

• Creating a network of researchers and experts.

POPULATION UNDER STUDY

2 problems:

• the diversity of national legislation (Roelants, 2009);

• the organizational variety within the co-operative sector(Hansmann, 1988 Zevi et al., 2011; Fici, 2013).

POPULATION UNDER STUDY

INDICATORS

The WCM Metrics Framework structure

INDICATORS

INDICATORS

The World Co-operative Monitor index

• a Composite Indicator Statistical Methodology (CISM) that aggregates a set of single indicators by using weights which are understood to reflect their importance in the index;

• CISM measures multidimensional concepts (competitiveness, wellbeing, environmental sustainability, etc.) which cannot be captured by a single indicator.

DATA COLLECTION

Dual strategy

• Integration of existing databases and rankings;

• Online questionnaire

CONCLUSIONS

• the World Co-operative Monitor project intends to propose an improved methodology for data collection and analysis of co-operatives worldwide;

• In the next future these data can be used to define indicators useful to describe economic and social dimensions of the co-operative movement in each sector, country, area and in the world;

• This presentation showed the methodological issues addressed in the first 2 years of the project. Not all of these issues have yet been solved;

• For ICA and Euricse, it is important to establish collaboration with other research centers.

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