1. Transmission, processing and publication of the HBS 2015 data
Working Group on Living Conditions
September 28th, 2017
Gerard HANNEY-LABASTILLE, Erika TAIDRE

2. Data Transmission
Data Processing
Publication

3. HBS 2015 Data received Country Received Format No of files
Country
Received
Format
No of files
No of transmissions 1
CZ-Czech Republic
07/10/2016
TSV 4 2
EL-Greece
09/11/2016 3
DE-Germany
05/12/2016
SAS
BG-Bulgaria 5
HR Croatia
16/12/2016 6
SI-Slovenia
22/12/2016 7
BE-Belgium
23/12/2016 8
ES-Spain
27/12/2016 9
RO-Romania 10
LV-Latvia
30/12/2016 11
PL-Poland
05/01/2017 12
EE-Estonia
26/01/2017 13
NL-Netherlands
24/02/2017 14
HU-Hungary
31/03/2017 15
SK-Slovakia
30/05/2017 16
AT-Austria
08/06/2017 17
22-PT-Portugal
28/08/2017 18
LU-Luxembourg
08/09/2017 19
SE- Sweden
21/09/2017 20
IE-Ireland
26/09/2017 21
RS- Serbia
28/12/2016 22
MK-FYR-Macedonia 23
ME-Montenegro
31/01/2017 24
NO-Norway
08/05/2017 25
XK-Kosovo
07/09/2017
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4. Transmission
Type
Number
SAS 18
TSV 6
TEXT 1

5. HBS 2015 Data not received 1 DK-Denmark
Promised to send the data by the end of April 2017 2
CY-Cyprus
Promised to send the data during 2017 Q2 3
MT-Malta
Promised to send the data during 2017 Q3 4
IT-Italy 5
LT-Lithuania
Promised to send the data during 2017 Q4 6
UK-United Kingdom 7
FI-Finland
Promised to send the data during 2018 Q1 8
FR-France
Promised to send the data during 2018 Q4

6. Problems encountered Consumption Expenditure Variables
Income Variables
Essential variables required to build Indicators
Formatting and Type miss-match problems *

7. Consumption Expenditure Variables
2-Digit HE (Consumption Expenditure) totals not
provided
The Hierarchy of HE Variables from 5-digit up to
2-digit totals, was not always consistent
HE variables were not Annualised

8. Income Variables Income Variables were not Annualised
Missing Income Variables e.g. HH099

9. Essential variables required to build Indicators
Certain variables required to build the Eurobase Tables
for HBS 2015 were not delivered by some countries
The most important of these variables were:
HC24, HD20, HH032, HB074, HB05, HB062, HC04, HA09 & HI12
Some countries provided an age-range rather than a real 'Age' variable
This results in Geo. Zone Aggregates (EU28/EA18 etc.) either having to be estimated or simply not calculated.

10. Formatting and Type miss-match problems
In some cases the Household ID was missing, had a different
name or different Char Type in the HH basic & HH member file
Variables sent as CHAR rather than NUM format & vice versa
Invalid characters contained within Variables Names
Some files contained a decimal-comma rather than a dot
Some files had duplicate Variable Names inside
Variable Names in Upper- & Lower-case in the one file

11. Quality Control EuroBase Indicators for
BE, CZ, DE, EE, EL, ES, HR, LV, NL, RO, SI, HU, SK
have been validated fully and the results have been
approved by the corresponding NSI for dissemination

12. Publication
The Publication of the first version of the EuroBase Indicators
based on micro-data from <28 Countries on the Eurostat
Website by Oct 2017
EU-/EA- Aggregates cannot be produced until data has been
received by ALL Member States
Preparation and publication of the "EU-wide HBS 2015
Quality Report" by Eurostat by the end of 2018 Q1
Finally, the preparation of Anonymised Micro-Datasets for
Scientific Research

13. Conclusions
Eurostat requests that countries please respect more closely the guidelines contained in the HBS Transmission document.
Eurostat recommends using standardised file formats (SAS) for the transmission of the HBS data to Eurostat
Amounts reported to Eurostat should be in national
currency (NAC), annualised and un-weighted.

14. Conclusions (II)
Countries should aim to reduce the frequency of missing values in the HBS micro-datasets transmitted to Eurostat
Countries should organize future HBS Surveys, during the agreed Reference Year
Could those countries that have not managed to deliver micro-data for the HBS 2015 Wave yet, please inform
Eurostat before October 16th, when they plan to send these data.

15. Thank you for your attention