Chiara Carini, Euricse at the International Co-operative Alliance Global Conference in Cape Town, November 2013.

1. Chiara Carini, Euricse
Building Research Capacity, Cape Town – 3 November 2013

2. OUTLINE
• Objective of the World Co-operative Monitor project
• Population under study
• Indicators
• Data collection
• Conclusions

3. OBJECTIVE OF THE
Collecting economic, organizational, and social data about
co-operatives worldwide in order to represent the
co-operative sector in its organizational, regional, and
sectoral diversity.

4. OBJECTIVE OF THE
A tool for the co-operative sector
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Raising the profile of co-operatives within their own industries and
countries, as well as internationally;
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Demonstrating the economic and social importance of co-operatives and
mutuals; and
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Highlighting good practice and highlighting successful co-operative
business models and innovative approaches.

5. OBJECTIVE OF THE
A tool for researchers
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Building a periodically updated database about the largest co-operatives
worldwide;
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Integrating projects aiming at collecting, organizing and analyzing data
relating to co-operatives at national, regional or sectoral levels; and
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Creating a network of researchers and experts.

6. 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).

7. POPULATION UNDER STUDY

8. INDICATORS
The WCM Metrics Framework structure

9. INDICATORS

10. 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.

11. DATA COLLECTION
Dual strategy
• Integration of existing databases and rankings;
• Online questionnaire

12. CONCLUSIONS
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the World Co-operative Monitor project intends to propose an improved
methodology for data collection and analysis of co-operatives worldwide;
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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;
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This presentation showed the methodological issues addressed in the first 2
years of the project. Not all of these issues have yet been solved;
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For ICA and Euricse, it is important to establish collaboration with other
research centers.

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