Agenda item 5.3 EHIS - Implementing Regulation Technical Group HIS – March 2011

Technical Group HIS – March 2011 Planning Technical Group EHIS Questionnaire ! Possible core Group meeting after Written feedback 28/29 June 2011: Working Group on Public Health Draft Regulation ! Green light | written round March 2012: DSS (Directors of Social Statistics - ESS) May or September 2012: Approval in ESS Committee End of 2012: Adoption by the Commission Technical Group HIS – March 2011

Technical Group HIS – March 2011 Content (draft) aim + legal and policy reference texts definitions (community statistics, year of the survey, private household, …) scope of the survey (PH statistics on health status, health care, …) time reference (2014) survey duration and timing (...over the year, … at least 4 months during autumn, 30-40’ interview) data required; targeted variables or questionnaire (definitions; classifications; breakdowns; reference period …) survey unit (countries involved, private households and/or institutionalised people, people 15+, resident in the country, …) identification numbers for persons and households Technical Group HIS – March 2011

Technical Group HIS – March 2011 Content (draft) sampling characteristics (sampling selection, sampling unit, minimum effective national sample sizes to be achieved supply of indicators (design effect, sampling error, etc); precision requirements for data publication, …) fieldwork aspects and imputation/weighting procedures (rules and guidelines for applying substitutions, use of proxy; what to do with missing data (item non response, unit non response and characteristics of imputation procedures), … ) transmission of data and metadata (micro data file, weighted fully checked and imputed if need be; time limits for data provision , ….) Quality reports (quality report by MS with indicators related to the accuracy, sampling, weighting, non response, mode of data collection, comparability), quality reports by Eurostat, …) access for scientific purposes to EHIS confidential data Technical Group HIS – March 2011