1. LAMAS October 2016 Agenda Item 2.1
SES2014: transmission, validation and dissemination

2. OUTLINE I. State of play and compliance monitoring II. Data validation
III. Dissemination

3. Importance of SES data
4 yearly survey based on 2 stage (enterprise  employee) sampling
Large part of the economy covered
Micro (distributional) data
Benchmark for Gender Pay Gap (GPG)

4. Compliance Monitoring
Timeliness:
Within the deadline: BE, CZ, DK, DE, EE, IE, ES, CY, LV, LT, LU, HU, MT, NL, AT, PL, RO, SI, SK, FI, SE, UK, NO, IS, CH, ME, MK, RS, TR
Up to 6 weeks delay: BG, FR, IT, PT
More than 2 months delay: HR (not validated)
No data received: EL

5. IT Validation Incorrect or missing headers or variable names
Missing mandatory variables or columns
Column separator (;)
Decimal point (.)
B25 (Highest successfully completed level of education and training - ISCED 2011)

6. Statistical Validation
Annual days of holiday leave (B33)
Number of overtime hours paid in the reference month (B321)
Earnings related to overtime (B421)

7. Missing Mandatory Variables
NL: B422 (payments for shift work)
SE: A15 (collective pay agreement), B28 (type of employment contract) and B33 (annual days of leave)

8. Data Publishing (Eurobase)
- 8 July 2016: first 20 countries
- 1 August 2016: 32 countries
- 22 September 2016: EU / EA aggregates
(without Greece and Croatia)

9. Next steps 2016Q4: - SES News release
- National Quality Reports posted on ESS-MH
- SES data in Safe Center of Eurostat
2017Q1: - European synthesis of Quality Reports
- CDROM (scientific use file)

10. The LAMAS delegates are invited:
- To take note of the state of play concerning the transmission, validation and dissemination of SES 2014 data
- To take note that the SES 2014 national quality reports have to be updated in ESS-MH no later than 31 December 2016 (contact person: Ines KOLAKOVIC)

11. Thank you for your attention!