2016 AES – Draft Commission Regulation implementing Regulation (EC) No 452/2008 Agenda item 2.3 DSS Meeting 3-4 April 2014

Background March 2013: DSS agrees to set up a Task Force to prepare the 2016 Adult Education Survey (AES) June and December 2013: AES Task Force meetings to prepare the technical elements for 2016 AES Review of 2011 AES – improvements New information needs Data collection period, reference period, data transmission period List of variables

Consultations towards ESSC (1) January 2014: 1st consultation of the Education and Training Statistics Working Group (ETS WG) Comments on variables Concerns on data collection period Mid-February 2014: 2nd consultation of the ETS WG Revised data collection period, derogations Early March: feed-back to ETS WG on changes

Consultations towards ESSC (2) End-February 2014: DSS consultation 23 replies (of 28) All countries agree on the proposed draft Minor changes to variables Confirmation of derogations for data collection period Summary information sent to DSS on 25/03/2014 Inter-services consultation on-going Deadline 9/04/2014 Preparation of ESSC documents Draft Commission Regulation Draft Commission Implementing Decision (derogations)

Data collection period (1) Discussion at AES TF Pre-consultation of all AES delegates on reference period and data collection period Calendar year (2015) would be best methodological solution but requires data collection very early in 2016 – not feasible General agreement that the data collection period should be reduced to 6 months (AES 2011: 12 months  comparability issues) Fieldwork period Q1-Q2/2016: some 20 countries indicate that this would be feasible TF concludes that Q1-Q2/2016 should be proposed as data collection period

Data collection period (2) ETS WG consultation Several countries express serious concerns on Q1-Q2/2016: workload due to other surveys 5 years distance to 2011 AES to be kept 1 July 2011 + 5 years = 1 July 2016 Q3-Q4/2016 would require too many derogations Compromise: Q3/2016 – Q1/2017 Derogations: 5 countries Data collection period: IE (Q1-Q4/2017), FR, FI (Q1-Q2/2017) Data transmission period: BE, MT (9 instead of 6 months)

Conclusions of consultations Draft Commission Regulation for 2016 AES 28/28 for Derogations for 2016 AES DSS asked to confirm their support to the regulation and the decision and agree to submit them to ESSC in May 2014