1. Debrief of Learning Seminar on Youth Employment Initiative
TÓTH Gábor and Costas VOYIATZIS
DG EMPL - Impact Assessment and Evaluation Unit
ESF Evaluation Partnership meeting, Brussels, March, 2015

2. State of play in YEI reporting
What can be expected in the April structured data submission?
Quantitative data: 4 MS
Implementation started in 2014 though MC approval missing
Report to reflect the reality
Possibility to change the report following the MC meeting
Implementation did not start in 2014: only qualitative info reported

3. What is required in the April report?
Structured data
Partially or fully implemented operations
Content:
Annex I and II and programme specific indicators
Financial data
Issues affecting the performance of the programme and measures taken
Citizen's summary
Optional: actions taken to fulfil ex-ante conditionalities

4. To what extent are administrative records used?
Large variation
Number and type of indicators from registers
Number of registers used
Preparations for getting access to registers in progress
Problem: mismatch between common and national definitions

5. What are the main problems?
Data on household situation
FR example, direct applicability of the ESF Regulation
Difference in ESF and national definitions
Further guidance to beneficiaries
Timeliness of data in administrative registers

6. State of play in YEI evaluation
Most Member States have included the 2015 YEI evaluation in their evaluation plan
Currently MS are working on the ToRs
Majority of the YEI evaluations will be procured
One MS is in the tendering procedure
Main reason of delay: Late adoption of OPs (or still at the negotiation phase)

7. What are the main evaluation questions covered and methodology used?
Cover a wide range of aspects for MS who have selected evaluation questions
One MS has selected tasks instead of question
In another case, the bidders will have to propose them
YEI evaluation 2015: Mainly theory based (and process evaluation)
Keen on taking up CIE (especially for 2018 evaluation)

8. YEI workshop – France on Household situation
Obligatory for all participants to answer questionnaire/questions in system
Consent of participants is not needed because no data has been deemed as sensitive with the exception of data on minorities
Direct application of the ESF Regulation

9. YEI workshop – France on Household situation
Validation checks at the aggregate level are responsibility of MA
No problem to combine data sets from different MIS
Updating results for participants who re-enter an operation after having left
Data collection from minors

10. YEI workshop – Use of registers by Sweden
Criteria for the application of the definition for qualifications are missing
Problem with output indicators referring to the situation of participants exactly on entry
Compatibility between definitions used in national registers and the EC guidance has been assessed by Statistics Sweden
Data on minorities and disabled will not be collected

11. YEI workshop – Use of registers by Sweden
If individuals are not in the PES register, they are considered as inactive
Immediate result indicators will be collected by beneficiaries via a questionnaire