Survey report on the future needs

This user survey report on the future needs described the main insights from a user survey that reached out to data users in the fields of living and working conditions, poverty, vulnerability or precariousness, inclusion, social and labour policy, and related domains. The user survey focuses on identifying and prioritising data users’ needs to gather further insight into the main challenges regarding the European scientific and policy communities concerned with inclusive growth. The results of this user survey can be used to expand the current state of data, indicators, methods and tools, as well as opportunities for training and networking in the discussed areas. This report first describes the applied methodology. Then it focuses on the users’ needs regarding data, indicators and methods and stipulates how InGRID-2 or resembling futuring projects can address these needs. Next data users’ opinions on availability and shortages regarding training and networking activities in the respondents’ respective fields of interest are described with special attention for the visiting grants offered for transnational access, which is also partly an evaluation of the ongoing InGRID-2 activities.