Slide 1WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 Eurostat Modernisation of social statistics - state of play Agenda point 4 WG Public Health Statistics December 2014

Slide 2WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 Modernisation programme for social statistics programme mandate from the Wiesbaden Memorandum in 2011 governance via DSS with input from WGs orientations reconfirmed by ESSC in November 2014

Slide 3WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 Structure of the programme Objectives Subject- matter domains Cross-cutting work areas Modernisation of the legal base ESS Vision 2020

Slide 4WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 Programme objectives Social statistics which are more responsive to user needs, in particular for EU policies higher quality (including timeliness) more efficient (information vs resources)

Slide 5WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 Cross-cutting work areas …including standardisation of social variables integration of social surveys via modular survey architecture support for use of multiple modes in social surveys (web questionnaires) improvements to statistical frames (minimum quality requirements for sampling frames for EU social statistics) support for increased use of administrative data with quality assurance

Slide 6WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 ESS.VIP ADMIN Support for increased use of administrative data with quality assurance Improvements to statistical frames (minimum quality requirements) Support for increased use of administrative data with quality assurance Improvements to statistical frames (minimum quality requirements) ESSnet on Quality of statistics from multiple sources ESSnet on methodology Grants to finance pilot actions in Member States Centre of Excellence

Slide 7WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 Modernisation of the legal base Why? Many legal instruments for social statistics Different approaches for different data collections No simple way to standardise across data collections Technical changes may have to be decided by Parliament and Council No general provisions for financing of actions in Member States

Slide 8WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 Future legal architecture (theory) framework regulations delegated acts implementing acts ESS agreements manuals guidelines

Slide 9WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 Future legal architecture (practice) 3 framework regulations for social statistics IESS (Integrated European Social Statistics) = social microdata on households and individuals = common legal base for LFS, SILC, AES, EHIS, ICT(HH), HBS, TUS, (tourism) IESS (Integrated European Social Statistics) = social microdata on households and individuals = common legal base for LFS, SILC, AES, EHIS, ICT(HH), HBS, TUS, (tourism) Population statistics and censuses Social data collections transmitted as aggregated data from (mainly) administrative data sources - labour, health, education, crime, social protection, asylum, immigration enforcement, residence permits… Social data collections transmitted as aggregated data from (mainly) administrative data sources - labour, health, education, crime, social protection, asylum, immigration enforcement, residence permits…

Slide 10WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 IESS (1) IESS = LFS + SILC + AES + EHIS + ICT(HH) + TUS + HBS + (tourism) Specifications for each data collection Specifications for common elements Standards for data and metadata exchange Requirements for statistical frames Unified multiannual rolling planning Quality Provisions for modernisation Financing

Slide 11WG Public Health Statistics December 2014 IESS timetable 2014April DSSFirst discussion on principles June DSS BoardFirst draft Sept DSSSecond draft Dec DSS BoardThird draft 2015Feb DSSFourth draft ESSC CommissionAdopt proposal 2016Parliament and Council Start co-decision procedure 2017Adopt Framework Regulation CommissionAdopt first package of delegated and implementing acts