Scanner Data: Main changes and Eurostat's involvement Dirk-Jan Hoogerdijk Eurostat Unit C4 Price Statistics; Purchasing Power Parities; Housing Statistics

Main Changes  BE & DK to start using SD in 2016  LU & PL expected to start using SD in 2017  Several NSIs in the process of applying SD to clothing, footwear etc.  Recommendations coming – this afternoon Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 13

 Preparatory to working on the recommendation on processing scanner data  Visits to BE (January); DK, NO & SE (March); NL (April) and CH (May)  Reports where published on CIRCA & hand- out at this meeting Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 11 Visits

2013 Grants  Work started January 2014  Runs till March 2016  Value around 1.4 MEUR o SD: PL, PT, SI o WS: DE, IT, LU, NO, SE o ED: AT, HU, LU, NL, PT, SE Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 13

2014 Grants  Work started November 2014  Runs till June 2016  Value around 2.0 MEUR o SD: AT, BE, ES, FI, IS, NL, PL, SE, SI, SK o WS: AT, BE, FI, SI o ED: ES Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 13

2015 Grants  Still under evaluation  1 MEUR o SD: 10 countries applied o WS: 7 countries applied o ED: 4 countries applied Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 13

Future Eurostat involvement  Eurostat will continue to support work on the modernisation of price statistics through grants  Two workshops for grant recipients 2016: Scanner data; Web scraping & electronic devices Focus on: projects / sharing of information on progress difficulties and results Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 13

 We saw a successful implementation of SD in BE using existing SD methodologies (NL\CH).  Developments in LU, IT, PL coming along fast  Impact assessment: we need to look into this Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 11 Summing up and taking away 1

 For recommendation obtaining SD issues raised will addressed. Before end of the month.  For recommendation on processing SD: issues put forward will be incorporated into the draft.  Combined into one. Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 11 Summing up and taking away 2

 QU-method: developments not ended  CIA: a framework to look into when making index formula choices at EA level  Taking the correctness of data at face value: know your data!  IT: the not-so-neutral choices and effects when considering sampling and index formula Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 11 Summing up and taking away 3

 2016 WS on SD by Eurostat  2016 WS on Web Scraping and electronic devices  2016 Recommendation on processing – at least the draft. A lot of input at this workshop. Much discussion ahead.  SD into the manual. A chapter?  SD in legal framework?  SD questionnaire to be repeated in 2016 Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October / 11 Coming up 2016

Thank you for your attention! Any Questions ?