1. Item 7 - Roadmap and mandate for the Task Force on UOE Education Expenditure Data
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2. Phase 2: Discussing and agreeing a roadmap for future developments of expenditure data on education (April to September 2018)
Outcome of the Workshop on Development of Education Expenditure Data → Draft roadmap including 3 work-packages:
Work-package 1 - Improving the UOE methodology
Work-package 2 - Improve understanding and documentation of the links between the UOE and National Accounts
Work-package 3 - Develop and support the way forward to improve the timeliness of the UOE finance data
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June

3. Work-Package 1-Improving the existing UOE methodology:
Objective: to improve the quality of the UOE methodology regarding expenditure on education data
Focus: on geographical scope, private expenditure (households and other non-educational private entities), ancillary services, R&D expenditure, Public transfers to private sector, student loans;
Expected outcomes: concrete proposals for clarifications or changes to be implemented in the UOE manual, to the structure of the National Quality report and/or to the UOE questionnaire.
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4. WP2- Improve understanding and documentation of the links between the UOE and National Accounts
Objective: to investigate more in-depth the links and differences between the UOE framework and the National Accounts framework.
Focus: scope of education, education sectors (institutional sectors, educational institutions), accounting principles, capital and current expenditure, national reconciliation exercise;
Expected outcomes:
Recommendations to adapt the UOE framework when the UOE methodology could benefit from the use of some concepts available in the National Accounts framework (with or without adaptation)
Improving the existing framework and material of the reconciliation exercise to facilitate the participation of additional countries
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5. WP3- Develop and support the way forward to improve the timeliness of the UOE finance data:
Objective: to define and develop/implement a strategy to significantly improve the timeliness of UOE finance data
Focus on four possible options:
Option 1: Improving the timeliness within the existing UOE framework
Option 2: Collecting a subset of the UOE-finance data with a shorter timeliness
Option 3: Estimating data on expenditure on education
Option 4: Building on the links with National Accounts: developing National Education Accounts
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6. Consultation about the priorities of the roadmap (WP1 and WP2) took place between 25 April and 25 May 2018 → 6 criteria:
Methodological impact
Expected improvement
Maturity of the topic
Expected workload
Connection with other theme(s)
National relevance
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7. Results of the consultation about the priorities of the roadmap – Work-Package 1:
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8. Results of the consultation about the priorities of the roadmap – Work Package 2
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9. Results of consultation with DG EAC about the priorities of the roadmap – Work-Package 3
DG EAC emphasised and requested that the roadmap should consider:
Collecting a subset of the UOE-finance data with a shorter timeliness (option 2) as a priority;
Shorter timeliness = disseminating data of reference year N at N+2 (i.e. Eurostat collects data of reference year N at the end of N+1);
Subset should be understood as:
Public (General Government) educational expenditure by education level, programme orientation and expenditure category;
Public subsidies to the private sector by education level and programme orientation
Financial aid to students by education level
Population of students aligned with financial data
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10. Proposal for the roadmap for future development of the Education Expenditure Data
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11. WP1-Improving the existing UOE methodology
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12. Gradually from End 2018 to maximum End 2021
Theme
Actors
Timeline
Eurostat
Task Force 1
Geographical scope X
UOE2019
(May2019) 2
Private expenditure – HH
Gradually from End 2018 to maximum End 2021 3
Public transfers to private sectors 4
Ancillary services 5
Students loans 6
R&D expenditure 7
Private expenditure – OPE
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13. WP2-Improve understanding and documentation of the links between the UOE and National Accounts
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14. A X B C D E F G H Theme Actors Timeline Eurostat Task Force
ESS members A
Education Sectors – Institutional sectors X
Gradually from End 2018 to 2019// UOE2019 (May2019) B
Reconciliation exercise
From End 2018 to End 2020 C
Scope of education
Gradually from End 2018 to maximum End 2021 D
Accounting principle E
Capital expenditure F
Education Sectors – Educational instituttions G
Current expenditure – Compensation of personnel H
Cur. Exp – Other than Comp. of personnel
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15. WP3 - Develop and support the way forward to improve the timeliness of the UOE finance data
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16. (ref. year T-1 in November T)
Options
Potential actions
Resources
Timeline
Eurostat
TaskF
ESS members
Other
Option 2: Collecting a subset of the UOE-finance data with a shorter timeliness
(ref. year T-1 in November T)
Main users define a limited set of data that would meet their specifics needs X
DGs
From End 2018 to maximum End 2021
Gradual contribution to the voluntary exercise
From End 2019 to 2022
Option 1: Improving the timeliness within the existing UOE framework
(ref. year T-2 in November T)
Sending the UOE-Finance questionnaire earlier than the current timeline
UOE2018 (May 2018)
Developing and agreeing on an additional set of validation rules aiming at shortening the data validation process
UOE2019 (May 2019)

17. (ref. year T-1 in November T through provisional accounts)
Options
Potential actions
Resources
Timeline
Eurostat
TaskF
ESS members
Other
Option 4: Building on the links with National Accounts: developing National Education Accounts
(ref. year T-1 in November T through provisional accounts)
Deepening the analysis of the links UOE- National Accounts frameworks + disseminating it to members of the ESS X
NAs
From End 2018
Analysing the relevance and expected benefits to set up at EU level a methodology of National Education Accounts
DGs
From End 2018 to maximum End 2019
Defining a EU methodology of National Education Accounts and its feasibility
From End 2018 to maximum End 2021

18. Option 3: Estimating data on expenditure on education
Options
Potential actions
Resources
Timeline
Eurostat
TaskF
ESS members
Other
Option 3: Estimating data on expenditure on education
(ref. year T-1 in T)
Key users identify the indicators that should be estimated X
DGs
From End 2018 to End 2019
Identifying and developing relevant methods to perform such estimations
Ad hoc projects
TF: from end 2018
Developing method: From End 2019/Beginning 2020;
Testing phase at national level: not before 2021 or 2022

19. In case of:
Option 2: Collecting a subset of the UOE-finance data with a shorter timeliness
Option 4: Building on the links with National Accounts: developing National Education Accounts
Option 3: Estimating data on expenditure on education
Discuss the opportunity to adapt and revise the current EU Regulation (From End 2022/Beginning 2023)
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20. Summary The ETS Working Group is invited to take note of:
The conclusions of the workshop on Development of Education Expenditure Data (DEED WS) and the results of consultation on the roadmap
Participants of the ETS Working Group are invited to express their views and discuss:
The Eurostat proposal for roadmap and further activities (in the medium and long term) in two key areas:
Improving the comparability of data and the UOE methodology on education expenditure (incl. the adaptation of the national quality report and a revision of the UOE manual);
Developing the consistency between the UOE methodology and the National Accounts methodology.
The options to improve the timeliness of UOE finance data (including the proposal of DG EAC to focus on priority on option 2).
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21. Summary Participants of the ETS Working Group are invited to approve:
The draft mandate of the UOE Education expenditure Task Force
Participants of the ETS Working Group are invited to nominate:
Members of the Task Force. The first meeting (two days) of the Task Force is planned in December 2018.
Eurostat Education and Training Statistics Working Group - Luxembourg, June