Item 8 Cost assessment survey of production of statistics in the ESS Walter Sura, A.2 – Strategy and Planning ESS RDG, 27-28 April 2017

State-of-play 1st cost assessment survey in 2015 Need to clarify methodological issues Data confidential Agreement by RDG in June 2016 on the way forward: support for the next round 2nd Cost assessment survey in 2016 Best possible estimate on human and financial resources Two figures: total cost and total FTE incurred by the ESS for production of official statistics ESS RDG, 27-28 April 2017

Guiding principles - General Official statistics (European, national layer) The survey covers NSIs, its regional statistical offices, and ONAs Reference period: calendar year covering 2012-2015 Non-recurrent expenditures (census, research programmes) to be included Activities, which are not core business of NSIs (e.g. elections), to be excluded Accrual accounting principles Consistency between the two cost projects ESS RDG, 27-28 April 2017

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- available 28 country data - Eurostat data Based on - available 28 country data - Eurostat data - data from 4 missing countries (1st survey) Preliminary estimates of the production of statistics in 2015 on ESS level points to ~ 3 bn € costs ~ 46 000 FTE ESS RDG, 27-28 April 2017

Proposed next steps Eurostat Who What When Eurostat Presents the outcome of the 2nd round of the cost assessment to the ESS RDG and clarifies guiding principles End of April 2017 NSIs Provide missing information for 2012-2015 (for the 2nd round) Mid June 2017 Calculates ESS aggregates for 2012-2015 and communicates to the RDG members End of July 2017 Launches the 3rd cost assessment survey covering 2016 and updating the previous years (if appropriate) Submit estimated 2016 cost data (including ONAs and regional offices) to Eurostat End of November 2017 Calculates ESS aggregates for 2016 (and if necessary revises 2012-2015 ESS data) and communicates to the RDG members End of December 2017 ESS RDG, 27-28 April 2017

Many thanks for your attention In case of further questions: walter Many thanks for your attention In case of further questions: walter.sura@ec.europa.eu ESS RDG, 27-28 April 2017