Standardisation of social variables – progress report Item 3 Standardisation of social variables – progress report Item 3.4 of the agenda DSS Meeting 3 and 4 October 2017

Draft list of P3 variables Private household definition proposal

Standardised variables 1/3 November 2013, DSS issued a mandate for activities to standardise variables across social micro-data collections List of 28 variables October 2016, 13 variable descriptions endorsed (P1) March 2017, 14 additional variables endorsed (P2) Variable 28 'current household income', not part of the consultation March 2017, agreement to prepare a draft P3 list  

Standardised variables 2/3 All variables present in more than one micro-data collection have been screened P3 variables selected: final step of 'standardisation of social variables' 10 new variables plus former P2 'current household income' Variables not included in P3 list: similar variables but different concept/purpose in each data collection same variables/concepts but different implementation

Standardised variables 3/3 Draft P3 list P3 variables Data collections Income (28) Current household income   AES, EHIS, ICT HH, HBS, HETUS, SILC Labour market (29) Existence of previous employment experience / person ever worked LFS, SILC (30) Size of the local unit of the main job AES, LFS, SILC (31) Supervisory responsibilities (32) Year in which the person started working for his/her current employer or as self-employed AES, LFS Education (33) Year when the highest level of education was successfully completed (34) Field of the highest level of education successfully completed Technical variables (35) Data collection mode / Interviewing mode used (36) Type of interview / Nature of participation in the survey (37) Strata (38) Primary Sampling Units (PSU)  

Private household Proposal for definition: person living alone or a group of people who live together providing themselves with the essentials of living, as either - one person household - multi-person household In case of inability to establish criteria for one-person vs. multi-person household, opinion of interviewee to be considered Concerns persons who are the 'usual residents'

The 'usual residence' concept to be further developed in line with population and demography Regulations

Eurostat invites the DSS to Endorse the standardisation process of P3 variables Endorse or comment on the proposal for 'Private household' definition