1. 9. Quality and Experimental data
Debriefing from the Quality WG, progress on Vision 2020 and work of the HLG-Q
DIME/ITDG meeting – 15 February 2017

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Revised Mandate of the WG – published
Leadership and supervision on Quality management as a whole, including CoP and QUAL
Prepare DIME / ESSC decision on quality
Vision 2020 Supporting Framework
Report from the QUAL Steering Committee: first meeting on 10/11/2016 – to focus now on the Coordination (Action 1) of the Vision 2020, in support of the work of the High-level Group on Quality / generalization of the ES CoP
Actions 2 and 3: in cooperation with DIGICOM, externalized

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Certification of products/processes: case studies of MS
Was discussed in the high-level workshop on quality which took place in February 2016
No need to have a new certification mechanism for products at EU level
But call to exchange experience in the context of WG
Certification of products, processes, QMS as a whole, products produced by ONAs

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ISO, including based on market, opinion and social research specific standards
Provide good input for QUAL action 3: conceptual elements for quality framework in the ESS

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Amended Regulation 223/2009: National guidelines
Updated inventory of national quality guidelines – final results presented. Majority of MS have or intend to have national guidelines
Development of national quality guidelines: case study of Statistics Denmark, sharing experiences and the lessons learned:

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CoP translated into 21 guidelines, self-assessment by ONAs in 2016
Importance to well formulate the questions of the Self- assessment, professional independence as key issue, some ONAs might not have an infrastructure with more one off production
Overall conclusion on National Guidelines: crucial tool to strengthen coordination within NSS, in a context where coordination is considered to be reinforced in the CoP

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Survey on regionalized and decentralized national statistical systems – final results presented, linking them to the ESGAB Annual Report 2015:
MS invited to continue to update list of ONAs as appropriate
Inform Eurostat in case of changes to MS's institutional structure
MS role re ESGAB recommendations 15 and 16 of (MS to adopt strong leadership role and effective coordination procedure / provide sufficient resources for training and awareness-raising on the CoP)

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ESS work on standardization
Update on the process, follow-up of the results of the consultation of the Quality WG members
ESSC February 2017: SIMS and ESS Handbook for quality reports as standards
New ESS Handbook on Quality and Metadata Reporting
Presentation of the revision project, planning, main milestones: objective in 2017, align to SIMS 2,0, streamline
Presentation on the implementation of quality indicators in STS

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ESS.VIP.ADMIN: ESSNet on Quality in Multi- source Statistics
State-of-play of the project, next steps
Advanced ESTP training course on Quality Reporting in 2017
Following the success of the November 2016 training course, 2 courses have been planned for 2017, next one March/ a few places left.
Quality conference 2018
Grant agreement signed since the WG meeting – the conference will take place in Poland

10. Vision 2020
Action 1 on coordinating quality in the Vision Implementation Portfolio launched – with the QUAL Steering Committee
Action 2 (SWOT analysis, Q profiles & stakeholder analysis and interaction) and Action 3 (Q for the institutions as a whole) taken forward in collaboration with DIGICOM, in the form of public procurements
All 3 actions serve as an input to the work of the High-level Group on Quality

11. HLG-Q meeting of 8 February 2017
All documents of HLG-Q available on CIRCABC / ESSC pages
Quality declaration:
translated in national languages, text marker
CoP design
Modernisation of the CoP / ESS QAF: more generic Code, WG / DIME + ESGAB
Quality profile of statistics (experimental data, next slide)
Programme of the HLG (CoP / CQF, Peer reviews, QUAL / DIGICOM), extension of mandate

12. HLG-Q: Experimental data
Already disseminated by a couple of MS, other countries, ECB
With regard to labelling, Eurostat' approach policy on Experimental data / R&D in official statistics
Data with lower level of maturity, 'beta-version'
Main purpose: to experiment, seek user feedback, but also to serve our users

13. HLG-Q: Experimental data
The entirety of the ES Code of Practice is not covered – they are not European Statistics
Communication: crucial, clear distinction needed to avoid risk of misunderstanding
Proposal of linking the national and Eurostat initiatives in an ESS platform

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