Working Group on Standards June 2018 Jean-Marc MUSEUX, Unit B1 ESS Standardisation Working Group on Standards June 2018 Jean-Marc MUSEUX, Unit B1

Outline of the presentation Reminder State of play Open issues Eurostat 2

Reminder The process of ESS standardisation Process and principles of ESS standardisation adopted by the 26th Meeting of the ESSC on 25 September 2015 Eurostat 3

Roles in the process ESS Standardisation Architecture Eurostat 4

State of play Top down approach Based on ex ante analysis of existing – de facto standards (ESSnet on standardisation) First series of 10 ESS Standards approved by ESSC in 2017 Catalogue of ESS Standards online integrated in RAMON ESS Standardisation web site on CROS http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cros/content/ess-standardisation_en ESS Standards Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange - SDMX - SDMX 2.0 Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange - SDMX - SDMX 2.1 2012 Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM - GSBPM 5.0 2013 International Standard Classification of Education – ISCED - ISCED-2011 Business registers - Recommendations manual - 2010 Edition ESS Guidelines on Seasonal Adjustment 2015 Edition Electronic Data file Administration and Management Information System EDAMIS (advent of EDAMIS 4) ESS Handbook for Quality Reports - 2014 Edition Handbook on Precision Requirements and Variance Estimation for ESS Household Surveys - 2013 Edition Single Integrated Metadata Structure SIMS 2.0   Eurostat 5

State of play Systematic involvement of stakeholders Yearly Eurostat process involving business/production units asking for Need for standards Existing and upcoming candidate standards Planned change in existing standard Eurostat 6

State of play Bottom up approach - 2017 wave Very few candidate / need for standards emerged Finalisationof long standing methodological activities (guidelines) ESS guidelines on temporal disaggregation (WGM - TF) Handbook on statistical disclosure control methods (CoE SDC) Guidelines on output checking (CoE SDC) Eurostat 7

State of play Bottom up approach - 2018 wave (on going) ESS VIP ADMIN Normative documents are surfacing from ESS.VIP activities : ESS VIP ADMIN ESS guidelines on estimation methods for administrative data Guidelines on the quality of multisource statistics (ESSnet "Quality of Multisource Statistics") Quality guidelines for frames of social statistics (ESSnet "Quality of Multisource Statistics") ESS VIP VALIDATION IMPLEMENTATION Eurostat 8

Issues Top down approach Bottom up approach Still few candidate without a formal status Bottom up approach Limit against strategic of approach (quality improvments ….) Value of ESS standards for business (compared to legal acts) Standardisation process and innovation time line ESS Management sponsoring – future of the ESS cooperation Hanging standards: Classification of Statistical Activities CSA CSA Rev. 1 2009 : Consult the WG on standardisation Standard International Trade Classification SITC SITC Rev. 4 2006 : not "used" in the ESS International Standard Statistical Classification of Aquatic Animals and Plants ISSCAAP 2000 : Not developed by the ESS - ESS container : E1 to consult the Fishery Statistics Working Group Eurostat 9

Next steps EG on Standardisation to review the status of "candidate standards" Proposal the ESSC for new standards to be issued in Feb 2019 Lessons learned Eurostat 10

Thank you for your attention! Q&A Thank you for your attention! Eurostat 11