1. ESS Slide 1 Quality assessment of MEHM in SILC Eurostat Unit F5 “Health and Food Safety Statistics” 4 th meeting of the Task Force on Health Expectancies Luxembourg, 4 June 2007

2. ESS Slide 2 The Minimum European Health Module (MEHM)  MEHM used in: EU-SILC –> list of variables European Health Status Module (EHSM) of the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS) –> questions with conceptual cards

3. ESS Slide 3 MEHM in EU-SILC  Health, including health status and chronic illness or condition General health Very good/Good/Fair/Bad/Very bad Suffer from any chronic (long-standing) illness or condition Yes/No Limitation in activities people usually do because of health problems for at least the last 6 months Yes, strongly limited/Yes, limited/No, not limited

4. ESS Slide 4 EU-SILC  Implementation year: 2003: BE, DK, EL, IE, LU, AT + NO 2004: EE, ES, FR, IT, PT, FI, SE + IS 2005: CZ, DE, CY, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, SI, SK, UK 2006: BG, RO

5. ESS Slide 5 EU-SILC: sample sizes in 2005

6. ESS Slide 6 MEHM in EHIS  Questions originally developed in English  Translation protocol for other languages  Eurostat grants and Transition Facility/Phare projects for preparing national linguistic versions following the translation protocol and testing  Final English version of the EHIS adopted by the Working Group on Public Health Statistics in November 2006

7. ESS Slide 7 Harmonisation of health questions  January-February 2007  National questionnaires with PH010 to PH070 questions collected from all MS; each MS provided the questionnaires from the 1 st year of implementation to 2007  End February 2007  National questionnaires sent to all EHIS delegates from MS, for checking these questions; deadline end March 2007  April-June 2007  Adapt SILC detailed guidelines on the MEHM questions using the EHIS conceptual cards and guidelines  Analyse and make a synthesis of the checking done by the EHIS delegates in all MS

8. ESS Slide 8  19 June 2007  Inform the SILC Working Group and solve any remaining problems in national questionnaires and organise coordination with the EHIS national delegates in order to ensure a continuous coordination  2007-2008  All national SILC questionnaires harmonised for the 2008 round Harmonisation of health questions

9. ESS Slide 9  Calculations done for 2003, 2004 and 2005 with the SILC data (depending on the year of implementation)  Consultations with EHEMU  Dissemination: summer 2007 Dissemination of the 2003-2005 HLY data