Innovative sources and tools for living conditions surveys New project, supporting upcoming work for HBS and TUS 28/09/2017 - Hubertus Cloodt European Commission, DG Eurostat the statistical office of the European Union Unit F4 – Income and living conditions; Quality of life

Background Burden reduction on respondents Need for better information on household budgets Decreasing response rates Data comparability Increase attractiveness of surveys Data coverage New data sources use of available technologies, hardware,..

Project main objectives 2. Identify tool(s) and prototype specification 1. Reuse of existing (Big) data sources Shouldn't you develop an App? Calm down! First to test this paper prototype… Draft Methodology Identify Tools Identify Sources Specificationof functions Prepare testing

Expected main outcomes Support for … Work being done in the TFs HBS and TUS on innovation…. Methodological development taking into account identified data sources to be reused in the data collection process for HBS and TUS Identifying classifications and data structure definitions supporting standardisation for data exchange based on identified new data sources Update of referential metadata and quality information Inventory of tools and harmonisation of tool descriptions Specification prototype

Prototype specification Main tasks defined Tools Inventory Support the Task Forces with identification of suitable tools and needs for data collection: using CSPA templates to harmonise description of tools Develop an inventory containing descriptions of tools incl. relationship with HBS and TUS Source Inventory Support the Task Forces with identification of suitable data sources Develop an inventory containing descriptions of data sources incl. relationship with HBS and TUS Methodological work Participate in methodological work in the Task Forces Examples: describe in detail improvements proposed by the task forces: possible impact on variables, standardising future data collection, impact on ESS production process for social stats Prototype specification Work on a prototype specification for modernised data collection for variables in the current surveys, using as input results of work carried out by the Task Forces Create definition and specification of the business needs resulting form the task forces Task Forces support Demonstrations, presentations Contributions: participate in discussions on different platforms

Organisation and planning Eurostat provides budget and caries out the project management Start: November 2017 End: December 2018 Preparation of inputs for task force meetings Contacts with Task force members (email, phone, video conference) to support on going work in the TF

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