The socio-economic impact of projects financed by the Cohesion Fund : a modelling approach; Volume III, Data Report

As with the previous report, this final report on data collection will concentrate on a discussion of the following points: - the effort undertaken in each country involved in the study; - specification of variables in terms of the em-pirical operationalization of the modelling data requirements; - specification of the units of analysis; and - the time period over which the data have been collected. Given the overall objectives of the project, our most immediate concern was with the in-putting and definition of data for the four "cohesion" countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain). That task has been completed. At the beginning, the collection of data for the three "spill- over" countries (France, Italy and the UK) received a slightly lower priority. However, during the early months of 1996 we completed the data collec-tion for the three larger countries.