1. 3.5 Timeliness of social statistics

2. The strong policy demand
Crisis affecting Europe and Europeans
No tool to monitor in a timely manner the effect on the social situation or to monitor impact of policy measures
We don't know fast enough who is affected, who benefits from policy change
European semester strategy is blind on social issues

3. Key variables At risk of poverty Early estimates
Advance indicators (monthly income)
Nowcasts
Material deprivation
Financial stress, subjective poverty
Coping strategy (which reaction to the economic shock?)
Alternative measures (beneficiaries of support)

4. Need for an action plan
Explore all possibilities, incl. national experiences
Identify uses of datasets
Communication
On-going:
Questionnaire
Studies (modelling and micro modelling)
Use of the monthly consumer survey (and predictive power)
Number of recipient of benefits

5. Not a unique solution Long run: modernisation
In the meantime, appropriate mix of solutions
Including, possibly, a short timely module run quarterly in the LFS (to be piloted in 2014)

6. The DSS is invited
to take note of the strength and urgency of the users' needs for near real time key social data in times of crisis
to acknowledge that an appropriate statistical solution to this problem is an important priority for the ESS
to support Eurostat's work in exploring alternatives and to acknowledge that a solution in the context of the LFS is a valid option to analyse