EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC SOCIOECONOMIC REPORTING - STATE AND POSSIBILITIESOF DEVELOPMENT

This paper proposes a European socio-economic reporting system, consis ting of different elements and constructed in a modular form. The main idea is to monitor the process of welfare production, conceived in th e form of an input-throughput-output model. Actors of welfare producti on generate inputs, these are mediated and filtered by institutional a rrangements and finally determine the outcomes, that is the individual welfare. For all of the three parts of the welfare production model a vailable data sources, social reports, social surveys, databases with institutional information etc. are reviewed and analyzed with respect to their use for the monitoring of welfare production. The paper is di vided into five sections: first, the state of socio-economic reporting is outlined; second, the use of the available material is discussed; third, new approaches and instruments in socio-economic reporting are described; fourth, a scenario of European socioeconomic reporting is o utlined; and fifth, the steps needed for implementation are delineated .