1. LAMAS Working Group 17-18 June 2015
Agenda Item 4.2 Overview of census revisions Frank.

2. Background DSS in 2012 (for LFS):
Europe 2020 headline indicators: prevent breaks in time series at least from 2010
'no break' = impact smaller than 1 decimal digit for
Employment rate 20-64
Early leavers from education and training 18-24
Share of population with tertiary educational attainment

3. Core LFS weight revisions
No (need to implement) revisions (11 countries): BE, DK, FR, NL, SI, FI, SE, IS, NO, CH, MK Evaluation not finished yet: TR Revisions (21 countries): BG, CZ, DE, EE, IE, EL, ES, HR, IT, CY, LT, LV, LU, HU, MT, AT, PL, PT, RO, SK, UK

4. Core LFS weight revisions
Exercise started May 2012, not completely finished yet
16 countries: revision at least back to 2010, disseminated
LU special case: only yearly weights so far
4 countries revised back to 2011 only:
CZ, in principle also SK – fulfilling criteria
DE – 2010 data announced already
BG – 1 pp. difference for employment rate in 2011, no data for 2010 announced yet

5. Core LFS weight revisions
Bulgaria is asked to inform the LAMAS Working Group about its plans regarding the 2010 back-data weight revision

6. Impact on LFS ad-hoc modules
2014 OK, countries pending
Previous years: mostly not done yet (exceptions: BG, CZ, CY, LT, PL, SK (all years of core revision), EE (back to 2005), IE (back to 2009), LV (back to 2011))
Approach at national level?
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