Table 3 Occurrence of difficulties by type of difficulty for each EI step (for a total of 59 difficulties identified in 28 interviews)
Type of difficulties* | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tasks | Time-consumption | Technical barrier | Quality | Collaboration | Methodology | Timeliness | Total |
Collection | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
Processing | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
Data sharing | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Analysis | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 16 |
Reporting | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Strategy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
Total | 17 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 59 |
% interviewees | 61% | 46% | 32% | 29% | 29% | 14% | |
number of countries | 4 + ECDC | 3 | 4 | 4 + ECDC | 4 + ECDC | 2 | |