Main changes and Eurostat's involvement Scanner Data: Main changes and Eurostat's involvement Dirk-Jan Hoogerdijk Eurostat Unit C4 Price Statistics; Purchasing Power Parities; Housing Statistics

Main Changes BE & DK to start using SD in 2016 LU & PL expected to start using SD in 2017 Several NSIs in the process of applying SD to clothing, footwear etc. Recommendations coming – this afternoon Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

Visits Preparatory to working on the recommendation on processing scanner data Visits to BE (January); DK, NO & SE (March); NL (April) and CH (May) Reports where published on CIRCA & hand- out at this meeting Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

2013 Grants Work started January 2014 Runs till March 2016 Value around 1.4 MEUR SD: PL, PT, SI WS: DE, IT, LU, NO, SE ED: AT, HU, LU, NL, PT, SE Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

2014 Grants Work started November 2014 Runs till June 2016 Value around 2.0 MEUR SD: AT, BE, ES, FI, IS, NL, PL, SE, SI, SK WS: AT, BE, FI, SI ED: ES Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

2015 Grants Still under evaluation 1 MEUR SD: 10 countries applied WS: 7 countries applied ED: 4 countries applied Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

Future Eurostat involvement Eurostat will continue to support work on the modernisation of price statistics through grants Two workshops for grant recipients 2016: Scanner data; Web scraping & electronic devices Focus on: projects / sharing of information on progress difficulties and results Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

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