Organizer 1
Lars Østby
Senior Research Fellow
Statistics Norway
P.O.B. 8131 - dep N-0033 Oslo Norway
Kongensgt 6 0152 Oslo
Tel: (+) 47 21 09 47 95
Fax: (+) 47 21 09 49 88
Email:los@ssb.no


Organizer 2
Eva Haagensen




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Organizer 3
Benedicte Lie
Senior Executive Officer
Statistics Norway
as above
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Tel: (+) 47 21 09 46 05
Fax: (+) 47 21 09 44 04
Email:Benedicte.Lie@ssb.no



Workshop description:
The workshop will be a follow up to workshop 46 International Comparative Indicators on Ethnic Discrimination at the 6th International Metropolis conference in Rotterdam. The need for comparative indicators on discrimination (and also on integration) has been made clear in a number of contexts, and the Rotterdam meeting demonstrated the lack of such indicators. We also saw elements of common work going on within some international organisations, like the EUMC. This work, however, does not meet all requirements in research and analysis, in policy making, or in international surveillance bodies. In this workshop, focus will be on indicators on discrimination.


Goals of the workshop:
At this workshop, we would like to present a possible content of statistical work, based on an integration of register data and survey data.




Policy relevance and topic: UN and Council of Europe often critizise the countries for not handling the measurement of discrimination properly. A knowledge based policy has to take a comparative approach to the measurement of discrimination, this has to be done on a relative rather than absolute basis.


How international comparisons are included: By involving international agencies, and taking tha comparative dimension as our point of departure.



Presenters / participants /other information
Part 1 International needs
14.30 - 15.30
· Opening remarks by Lars Østby
· The needs of ECRI for better statistics on discrimination, if there is possible to find anyone willing to present their views
o Comments by Lars Østby
· Advancements made in EUMC on comparability of data on discrimination in the employment sector, Peter Fleissner
o Comments and questions
· Discrimination in the labour market, by a research sociologist.


Coffee break 15.30-16.00


Part 2 National needs
16.00 - 18.00
The second part will focus on national needs and work for indicators. We have now two presentations, and we will welcome more.
· Stephan Mo, Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development: The needs for measuring goal achievements and establishing successes criteria in the Norwegian action plan against Racism and xenophobia.
o Comments
· Jose Alberto Diaz, National Integration Office, Sweden: Perspectives of a research sociologist in a Swedish context.
o Comments
· Lars Østby: About the possibilities to develop comparable indicators of discrimination based on the meta data base COMPSTAT (see also WS 19)
· Discussion


Peter Fleissner,
EUMC, Vienna, Austria
peter.fleisnner@eumc.eu.int

Jose Alberto Diaz
Integrationsvärket, Norrköping, Sweden
Jose.Alberto.Diaz@integrationsverket.se

Stephan Mo
Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Norway
stephan.mo@krd.dep.no

Jon Rogstad
Institute for Social Research, Norway
Jon.Rogstad@isaf.no

Benedicte Lie
Statistics Norway
Benedicte.Lie@ssb.no

Eva Haagensen
Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, Norway
Eva.Haagensen@krd.dep.no

Lars Østby
Statistics Norway
los@ssb.no






Summary:
The workshop will take stock of achievements made in measuring
discrimination, based on a discussion of what we mean with the consept.
First and foremost international organisations in the field, but also researchers, responsible ministries, NGOs and statistical offices will be involved in defining the a minimum set of empirical indicators for this
purpose.
Keywords: Racial discrimination, ethnic discrimination. measurement,
indicators, comparison.






Date: 10 September


(1 session is 3 hours)
Number of sessions: 1

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