1. ESTP Advanced course on quality reporting
Giorgia Simeoni Remi Prual
Istat, Statistics Estonia,
«Quality in Statistics» Working Group
6 December 2016, Luxembourg

2. First edition ESTP Advanced course on quality reporting
held in Luxembourg, November 2016
Trainers: Giorgia Simeoni (Istat) and Remi Prual (Statistics Estonia) with the support of Bogdan Zdrentu (Eurostat-Unit B5)
Organisers: Eurostat Units D4 and B5
30 participants (efforts done to accept all the applicants!)

3. Course objectives
enhancing participants' theoretical and practical knowledge about quality reporting both in general terms and with a particular focus to ESS standards for quality reporting.
promoting harmonisation of quality reporting both cross- domain and cross countries
improving quality of European Statistics: quality reporting is the basis for quality assessment and then for quality improvement

4. Course contents
Each aspect related to Quality Reporting (QR) was treated:
Quality framework
General characteristics of QR
ESS standards
ESS Metadata Handler
… But the focus was methodological: best practice on how to fill-in each section of ESS standard for quality reports SIMS 2.0.

5. Participants
18 participants from quality, methodology or coordination units
-> they will train their colleagues from production units
9 participants from production units
-> in charge of compiling quality reports themselves
3 participants from international organisations or university
-> interest in quality reporting issues

6. Assessment of first edition
Results from evaluation questionnaires are still being processed: they will be used to improve next edition of the course
The trainers’ evaluation is very good:
participants were motivated and there was a good level of interaction during the course
efforts should be made in improving the work groups and including better examples in the material.

7. 2017 editions
Two editions of the course are planned for 2017
Both will be held in Luxembourg, with the same trainers
First: March. Deadline for registration
Second: November. Deadline for registration

8. Thank you for your attention!