Doc. 147/ Slide 1 Household Budget Surveys Working Group May 2003 Conclusions of the TF on COICOP-HBS development Item V.1 of the agenda

Doc. 147/ Slide 2 Conclusions of the TF on COICOP- HBS development 1.Antecedents 2.Objectives and scope 3. Contributions received 4. Conclusions of the TF 5.Summary Household Budget Surveys Working Group May 2003

Doc. 147/ Slide 3 1. Antecedents n The HBS WG adopted the OECD-COICOP of 1993 as basic classification to break down the household consumption expenditure. n This classification is also used by the NA n In order to have greater detail, the HBS WG derived a new classification called COICOP-HBS n The last version of COICOP dated from 1997 n Most countries have derived new classifications from COICOP-HBS even more detailed for national purposes n A detailed analysis of these classifications shows some problems of harmonisation

Doc. 147/ Slide 4 2. Objectives and scope 2.1.Objectives The aim of the TF was to investigate and possibly harmonise the details of the national adaptations of COICOP-HBS used by the countries of the HBS WG

Doc. 147/ Slide 5 2. Objectives, scope and working procedure 2.2.Scope The priority areas were “food”, “housing” and “financial services” (including insurance) From the following types of problems, only types 2 and 3 were analysed: n Different coding system and numbering n Omissions of categories in COICOP-HBS n Problems of classification leading to conflicts at the current level of detail of COICOP-HBS n Problems of classification leading to conflicts at the fifth level of detail of COICOP-HBS n Different level of desaggregation

Doc. 147/ Slide 6 n Initial comparative table developed by Eurostat n Written contributions sent by D, FIN, P and UK n Additional contributions by the DAFNE project team and the PPP team of Eurostat n Meeting held in Luxembourg in June 2002 with the participation of experts from D, FIN, NL, P, SE, UK and ESTAT n A few problems required further consultation and were solved afterwards by communication 3. Contributions received

Doc. 147/ Slide 7 Summary of the proposed changes to COICOP-HBS: n Improvement of the explanatory notes of 13 categories n Amendment of mistakes in the explanatory notes of 2 categories n Change of the name of 1 category n Addition of 2 new categories n Renumbering of 4 categories 4. Conclusions of the TF

Doc. 147/ Slide 8 Categories with improved explanations: Pastry-cook products Other products Other preserved or processed meat and meat preparations Other preserved or processed fish and seafood and fish and seafood preparations Other preserved or processed vegetables Stone fruits (fresh, chilled or frozen) Leaf and stem vegetables (fresh, chilled or frozen) Baby food, dietary preparations, baker's yeast and other food preparations Other food products n.e.c Actual rentals paid by tenants Materials for the maintenance and repair of the dwelling Insurance connected with the dwelling Other insurance 4. Conclusions of the TF

Doc. 147/ Slide 9 Categories with amended explanations: Other milk products Eggs 4. Conclusions of the TF

Doc. 147/ Slide 10 Category with new name: Baby food, dietary preparations, baker's yeast and other food preparations Baby food, dietary preparations, baker's yeast and other processed food and food preparations 4. Conclusions of the TF

Doc. 147/ Slide 11 New categories: Sandwiches Frozen vegetables 4. Conclusions of the TF Renumbered categories: Other products Other preserved or processed vegetables Potatoes Other tubers and products of tuber vegetables

Doc. 147/ Slide Summary The results of the TF work were a few limited proposals for improvement aiming at correcting some defects of the existing COICOP-HBS The improved COICOP-HBS is proposed to be used for the next round of HBS (ref.year 2005)