1. Working Group on Standards June 2018 Jean-Marc MUSEUX, Unit B1
ESS Standardisation
Working Group on Standards
June 2018
Jean-Marc MUSEUX, Unit B1

2. Outline of the presentation
Reminder
State of play
Open issues
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3. Reminder The process of ESS standardisation
Process and principles of ESS standardisation adopted by the 26th Meeting of the ESSC on 25 September 2015
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4. Roles in the process ESS Standardisation Architecture
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5. State of play Top down approach
Based on ex ante analysis of existing – de facto standards (ESSnet on standardisation)
First series of 10 ESS Standards approved by ESSC in 2017
Catalogue of ESS Standards online integrated in RAMON
ESS Standardisation web site on CROS
ESS Standards
Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange - SDMX - SDMX 2.0
Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange - SDMX - SDMX
Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM - GSBPM
International Standard Classification of Education – ISCED - ISCED-2011
Business registers - Recommendations manual Edition
ESS Guidelines on Seasonal Adjustment 2015 Edition
Electronic Data file Administration and Management Information System EDAMIS (advent of EDAMIS 4)
ESS Handbook for Quality Reports Edition
Handbook on Precision Requirements and Variance Estimation for ESS Household Surveys Edition
Single Integrated Metadata Structure SIMS 2.0
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6. State of play
Systematic involvement of stakeholders
Yearly Eurostat process involving business/production units asking for
Need for standards
Existing and upcoming candidate standards
Planned change in existing standard
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7. State of play Bottom up approach - 2017 wave
Very few candidate / need for standards emerged
Finalisationof long standing methodological activities (guidelines)
ESS guidelines on temporal disaggregation (WGM - TF)
Handbook on statistical disclosure control methods (CoE SDC)
Guidelines on output checking (CoE SDC)
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8. State of play Bottom up approach - 2018 wave (on going) ESS VIP ADMIN
Normative documents are surfacing from ESS.VIP activities :
ESS VIP ADMIN
ESS guidelines on estimation methods for administrative data
Guidelines on the quality of multisource statistics (ESSnet "Quality of Multisource Statistics")
Quality guidelines for frames of social statistics (ESSnet "Quality of Multisource Statistics")
ESS VIP VALIDATION IMPLEMENTATION
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9. Issues Top down approach Bottom up approach
Still few candidate without a formal status
Bottom up approach
Limit against strategic of approach (quality improvments ….)
Value of ESS standards for business (compared to legal acts)
Standardisation process and innovation time line
ESS Management sponsoring – future of the ESS cooperation
Hanging standards:
Classification of Statistical Activities CSA CSA Rev : Consult the WG on standardisation
Standard International Trade Classification SITC SITC Rev : not "used" in the ESS
International Standard Statistical Classification of Aquatic Animals and Plants ISSCAAP 2000 : Not developed by the ESS - ESS container : E1 to consult the Fishery Statistics Working Group
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10. Next steps
EG on Standardisation to review the status of "candidate standards"
Proposal the ESSC for new standards to be issued in Feb 2019
Lessons learned
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11. Thank you for your attention!
Q&A
Thank you for your attention!
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