1. 2.1. ESS Agreement on Learning Mobility (IVET & Youth)
DSS Meeting September 2012

2. Policy Background
EU 2020 Benchmark on Learning Mobility in Higher Education (Adm. data, flow measure, see item 3.8)
EU 2020 Benchmark on Learning Mobility in IVET (HH survey, stock measure)
Indicator on Youth Learning Mobility
Report to Council end of 2015 on progress achieved (adjustments to agreed EU Benchmarks?)

3. Current proposal for data collection
Current proposal: with a view to contribute to Council report by end 2015
"Sustainable" proposal beyond 2015: within the modernisation of EU social statistics
Pilot data collection (in 2014), therefore ESS agreement (before "regulating")
Data transmission: end of March 2015

4. Current proposal for data collection
Use of HH survey (which survey=to be decided at national level), with minimum sample size requirement (equivalent to current AES requirement)
2 possible options
Option 1 IVET only: 2 variables
Option 2 IVET & Youth: 5 variables + 3 optional variables (duration)

5. Results of DSS EoV Option 1 IVET: 6 to 8 EU MS EE (LFS)
FR ? (or option 2)
LV (LFS) with concerns on sample size
LU (LFS)
NL (LFS) with concerns on financing PL
SK (LFS) with concerns on financing
UK ? (tbc)

6. Results of DSS EoV Option 2 IVET & Youth: 11 to 12 EU MS BE (LFS) BG
CZ (LFS)
EL (LFS)
ES (Continuous Population Survey)
FR ? (or option 1) IT HU
AT with concerns on type of grants PT RO SI

7. Results of DSS EoV Neither option 1 nor option 2: 8 EU MS
DK: use of adm. data
DE: no consensus & concerns on methodology / ESS Agree.
IE: ongoing organisational change / cannot commit
CY: concerns on small sample sizes / reliability
LT: concerns on ESS Agree.
MT: concerns on small sample sizes / reliability
FI: concerns on ESS Agree.
SE: no possibility to participate
IS and CH

8. Eurostat comments to the EoV
Issue about sample sizes in small MS
Current definition of EU BM not applicable at national level in all countries; to be reviewed in the future?
Use of adm. data (DK and ???? DE)
Capacity of adm. Data to capture stocks (18-34)?
Potential lack of comparability with HH data?

9. Eurostat comments to the EoV
Financing could be available for both options but to be combined with actions linked to EU BM on LM in HE (through work packages in MBGA)
ESS agreement is the appropriate instrument promoted for piloting new data collection

10. Conclusions
Forward the ESS Agreement to the ESSC (15 November 2012): pilot data collection for at least 18/19 MS
Encourage countries not part of the ESS agreement to transmit adequate adm. data
Meetings of the TF on Learning Mobility in 2013 to prepare methodological guidelines for the data collection in 2014
Call for proposals to be launched in 2013 so that grants are signed no later than September 2013
DSS meeting in September 2015: assessment of the exercise + recommendations for adaptation of EU BM for small countries