Transmission, processing and publication of the HBS 2015 data Working Group on Living Conditions September 28th, 2017 Gerard HANNEY-LABASTILLE, Erika TAIDRE

Data Transmission Data Processing Publication 2017-09-28

HBS 2015 Data received Country Received Format No of files   Country Received Format No of files No of transmissions 1 CZ-Czech Republic 07/10/2016 TSV 4 2 EL-Greece 09/11/2016 3 DE-Germany 05/12/2016 SAS BG-Bulgaria 5 HR Croatia 16/12/2016 6 SI-Slovenia 22/12/2016 7 BE-Belgium 23/12/2016 8 ES-Spain 27/12/2016 9 RO-Romania 10 LV-Latvia 30/12/2016 11 PL-Poland 05/01/2017 12 EE-Estonia 26/01/2017 13 NL-Netherlands 24/02/2017 14 HU-Hungary 31/03/2017 15 SK-Slovakia 30/05/2017 16 AT-Austria 08/06/2017 17 22-PT-Portugal 28/08/2017 18 LU-Luxembourg 08/09/2017 19 SE- Sweden 21/09/2017 20 IE-Ireland 26/09/2017 21 RS- Serbia 28/12/2016 22 MK-FYR-Macedonia 23 ME-Montenegro 31/01/2017 24 NO-Norway 08/05/2017 25 XK-Kosovo 07/09/2017 TXT

Transmission Type Number SAS 18 TSV 6 TEXT 1 2017-09-28

HBS 2015 Data not received 1 DK-Denmark Promised to send the data by the end of April 2017 2 CY-Cyprus Promised to send the data during 2017 Q2 3 MT-Malta Promised to send the data during 2017 Q3 4 IT-Italy 5 LT-Lithuania Promised to send the data during 2017 Q4 6 UK-United Kingdom 7 FI-Finland Promised to send the data during 2018 Q1 8 FR-France Promised to send the data during 2018 Q4

Problems encountered Consumption Expenditure Variables Income Variables Essential variables required to build Indicators Formatting and Type miss-match problems * 2017-09-28

Consumption Expenditure Variables 2-Digit HE (Consumption Expenditure) totals not provided The Hierarchy of HE Variables from 5-digit up to 2-digit totals, was not always consistent HE variables were not Annualised 2017-09-28

Income Variables Income Variables were not Annualised Missing Income Variables e.g. HH099 2017-09-28

Essential variables required to build Indicators Certain variables required to build the Eurobase Tables for HBS 2015 were not delivered by some countries The most important of these variables were: HC24, HD20, HH032, HB074, HB05, HB062, HC04, HA09 & HI12 Some countries provided an age-range rather than a real 'Age' variable This results in Geo. Zone Aggregates (EU28/EA18 etc.) either having to be estimated or simply not calculated. 2017-09-28

Formatting and Type miss-match problems In some cases the Household ID was missing, had a different name or different Char Type in the HH basic & HH member file Variables sent as CHAR rather than NUM format & vice versa Invalid characters contained within Variables Names Some files contained a decimal-comma rather than a dot Some files had duplicate Variable Names inside Variable Names in Upper- & Lower-case in the one file 2017-09-28

Quality Control EuroBase Indicators for BE, CZ, DE, EE, EL, ES, HR, LV, NL, RO, SI, HU, SK have been validated fully and the results have been approved by the corresponding NSI for dissemination 2017-09-28

Publication The Publication of the first version of the EuroBase Indicators based on micro-data from <28 Countries on the Eurostat Website by Oct 2017 EU-/EA- Aggregates cannot be produced until data has been received by ALL Member States Preparation and publication of the "EU-wide HBS 2015 Quality Report" by Eurostat by the end of 2018 Q1 Finally, the preparation of Anonymised Micro-Datasets for Scientific Research 2017-09-28

Conclusions Eurostat requests that countries please respect more closely the guidelines contained in the HBS Transmission document. Eurostat recommends using standardised file formats (SAS) for the transmission of the HBS data to Eurostat Amounts reported to Eurostat should be in national currency (NAC), annualised and un-weighted. 2017-09-28

Conclusions (II) Countries should aim to reduce the frequency of missing values in the HBS micro-datasets transmitted to Eurostat Countries should organize future HBS Surveys, during the agreed Reference Year Could those countries that have not managed to deliver micro-data for the HBS 2015 Wave yet, please inform Eurostat before October 16th, when they plan to send these data. 2017-09-28

Thank you for your attention 2017-09-28