65th ISI World Statistics Congress 2025

65th ISI World Statistics Congress 2025

Research on Statistical Measurement of Government Data Asset Value --Practical experience from Zhejiang Province, China

Author

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He Zhu

Co-author

  • Y
    Yan Liang
  • s
    shujian Xiang

Conference

65th ISI World Statistics Congress 2025

Format: IPS Abstract - WSC 2025

Session: IPS 783 - Measurement Challenges of Data Assets in Official Statistics

Monday 6 October 10:50 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Europe/Amsterdam)

Abstract

With the increasing demand of the public and enterprises for government data, the difficulty of government data management is also increasing. The research on the statistical measurement of the value of government data assets is of great significance. Based on the definition of concepts related to the value of government data assets, this article divides government data assets into two categories: resource based data assets and operational data assets. Based on the value added theory of data, government governance innovation theory, and income distribution theory, Construct a triple value measure scheme step by step, a cost efficiency value composed of Material cost and human cost, a governance performance value composed of government data richness, openness, and update, a sharing value composed of government data usage and feedback. Taking the government functional departments involved in the public data open list released by Zhejiang Province as an example, by analyzing their financial settlement data, they are divided into three categories: social policy data functional departments, accountability data functional departments, and innovative data functional departments. Combined with relevant civil servant recruitment data, the material and human costs of government data are stripped, and based on the governance performance and inclusive sharing of corresponding data resources, Calculate the data asset value of each functional department and compare the similarities and differences among the three types of functional departments. The results show that the total value of data assets of government functional departments providing public data resources in Zhejiang Province at the end of 2021 was 9.733 billion yuan. Due to differences in their digitization process and core data asset types, cost efficiency, governance performance, and inclusive sharing value vary greatly among functional departments, resulting in significant differences in data asset value. As the digitization process of each functional department accelerates, the gap will be narrowed.