Cost analysis of European Statistics Walter Sura, Task Force Integrated Planning ESS RDG 2015 Item 4.2 ESS RDG meeting , Luxembourg 15-16 December 2015

Cost analysis of European Statistics Context of this new project - efficient steering of resources, cost transparency, and priority-setting Scope - Estimate on allocation of 2016 human/financial resources to European statistical products on ESS level Coverage - complete picture covers NSIs and ONAs - European cost layer only Cost collection - Catalogue 2016 (=product list) as presented to the ESSC in November and to the RDG in December - in Eurostat: linking products with countries' data sets (EDAMIS, CENSUSHUB, …)

Cost analysis of European Statistics Estimates on 2016 costs – corner marks - NSI will get information on the link between 2016 products and the EDAMIS data sets - NSI covers the ONA part in their country - split between 'national' and 'European' cost layer - including all related expenditure (horizontal costs) - accrual accounting rules - to cover the whole 'production cycle' - to apply accrual accounting rules - to include expenditures which occur not every year (e.g. CENSUS)

Estimated direct costs per product, 2016 European statistical product Cost analysis of European Statistics Deliverables - Human and financial resource consumption - Direct/indirect costs - FTE Test phase with a pilot group of volunteering NSIs   Estimated direct costs per product, 2016 Contracts Grants Costs FTE Comment by NSI European statistical product

Timeframe: deliverables and milestones Cost analysis of European Statistics Timeframe: deliverables and milestones Who What When Eurostat Presents the methodology to the ESS RDG 15.12.2015 NSIs Creation of the pilot group with the work on the methodology and then the test run on selected (20-50) products 01.01.2016 Results of the test run submitted to Eurostat 01.04.2016 Presents the outcome of the test phase to the ESS RDG June 2016 Sends tables and documents to the NSIs 01.09.2016 NSIs start the 2016 estimates on costs and coordinate the work in the countries ONA) NSIs submit estimated 2016 cost data (including ONA part) to Eurostat 01.03.2017 Consistency checks done and aggregation of countries’ data calculated 30.06.2017 ESS RDG document on Cost analysis of European Statistics – ‘global’ product costs in 2016 December 2017

Thank you for your attention. In case of further questions: walter Thank you for your attention ! In case of further questions: walter.sura@ec.europa.eu