Progress on implementing recommendations from AGA/LPR Marius Andersen, Eurostat

Outline Two years of experience on the follow-up of the AGA/LPR recommendations Result of 2013 monitoring Future monitoring and discussion questions

Two years of experience of following-up the recommendations The monitoring of the LPR resembles monitoring of the peer reviews of the MS In 2013 more standardized questionnaires were sent Reviewed AGA reports, and included more recommendation from the reports Suspect high response burden and some non-reporting on specific recommendations

Two years of monitoring Based on two rounds of experience with monitoring the implementation of AGA/LPR recommendations, the overall experience with the monitoring is that it proves useful, but that there is still room for improvement. Monitoring the LPR recommendations seems adequate

Code of Practice Principle Number of Peer Review Recommendations 2012 2013 Total Completed Completed percentage Remaining 1. Professional Independence 12 5 42% 6 50% 2. Mandate for Data Collection 16 38% 8 3. Adequacy of Resources 11 2 18% 9 4. Quality commitment 24 25% 7 29% 17 5. Statistical Confidentiality 58% 6. Impartiality and objectivity 100% - 7. Sound Methodology 4 67% 8. Appropriate Statistical Procedures 13 3 23% 9. Non-Excessive burden on respondents 0% 10. Cost Effectiveness 44% 11. Relevance 1 17% 12. Accuracy and Reliability 13. Timeliness and Punctuality 14. Coherence and Comparability 15. Accessibility and clarity 36 10 28% 36% 23 168 56 33% 69 41% 99

Number of AGA recommendations 2013 Number of recommendations Number of actions proposed Number of completed actions Percentage Number of remaining actions Code of Practice 81 77 14 18% 63 Other institutional and organisational aspects 25 23 4 17% 19 Statistcal domains 62 100 15 15% 85 Total 168 200 33 167

Results 2013 - Implementation status LPR recommendations as per May 2013

Results 2013 - Implementation status AGA recommendations as per May 2013

Future monitoring and discussion questions Eurostat’s suggests working further on reviewing the questionnaires Instructions to the questionnaire could be improved. In the longer term it could be an option to include the monitoring of both the AGA and the LPR recommendations in SMIS+.

Future monitoring and discussion questions How do you assess the current form of reporting? What are the strengths and weaknesses of a qualitative or quantitative analysis and presentation of the results? How do the NSIs assess the response burden? What could be the ways the reporting and the questionnaire could be simplified?