Public policy evaluation - 2023

The 2023 OECD Survey on Public Policy Evaluation provides practitioners, academics and civil society with an overview of evaluation practices across OECD countries, including information on institutionalisation, quality and impact.

About this questionnaire

The content of the 2023 database was collected using an online questionnaire and a glossary was also provided

The 2023 dataset provides information on the following topics:

• Section 1 - Institutionalising policy evaluation from a whole of government perspective (questions 4 to 10)


• Section 2 - Promoting the quality of public policy evaluations (questions 11 to 27)


• Section 3 - Conducting policy evaluations that impact decision-making (questions 28 to 36)

The 2023 database comprises responses from 31 OECD countries¹ and the data refers only to central/federal government practices as of 1 May 2023. Respondents were predominantly officials with evaluation coordination functions.
The content of the database draws heavily upon self-reporting from governments representing the country’s own assessment of current practices and procedures.

Preliminary results were presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Evaluation Expert group on December 2023.

¹For 2023, data for Finland, Germany, Israel, Korea, Slovenia, Slovak Republic and Türkiye are not available.