1. Access to European microdata for scientific purposes
Item 2.1
Aleksandra Bujnowska, Eurostat

2. Overview Some statistics on microdata release Recent achievements
On-going work

3. Organisations eligible to request access to microdata
Doing research
Making their results public
Independent
Secure microdata access facilities
817 entities recognised (on 1 October 2018)

4. Number of recognised research entities (July 2013-September 2018)

5. Eligible research proposals
Scientific purpose well described
Need for microdata justified
Data requested available
Research results to be made public
Data security measures in place
Around 1800 projects submitted since July 2013

6. Number of applications received by year*
* 2018 data – state of play on 15 October 2018

7. ESS microdata for scientific purposes
European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions
European Union Labour Force Survey
European Community Household Panel
Community Innovation Survey
Structure of Earnings Survey
European Health Interview Survey
Adult Education Survey
Household Budget Survey
Community Statistics on Information Society
Continuing Vocational Training Survey
European Road Freight Transport Survey
Micro-Moments Dataset

8. Number of requests for datasets by year

9. 2. Recent achievements
On-line transmission of scientific use files via S-CIRCABC
New version of the Guidelines on assessment of research entities and research proposals
Meeting of the Microdata Access Network Group (June 2018)
EU-SILC and LFS public use files on Eurostat website

10. Public use files EU-SILC: agree 21, not 4, no answer 3
LFS: agree 20, not 3, no answer 5
Link:

11. 3. On-going work DOI number for scientific use files
Virtual secure European data centre
Metadata standard for microdata
New European microdata sets to become available for scientific purposes
Confidentiality on the fly

12. Virtual secure European data centre (1)
ESSnet on decentralized and remote access to microdata – ESSnet DARA
Data: secure use files
Access points: safe centres in NSIs
Access procedures: same as for other microdata sets
Researcher identity control by the staff of the safe centres
Output control: Eurostat

13. Virtual secure European data centre (2)
Safe centres in NSIs need to be accredited (requirements defined by ESSnet)
Approval of accredited safe centres by NSIs providing the data
Contract between Eurostat and safe centres

14. Virtual secure European data centre (3)
Technical solution for remote access proposed by IT service of the Commission
2018: agreement on the concept and its implementation
2019: implementation and testing