1. Main changes and Eurostat's involvement
Scanner Data:
Main changes and Eurostat's involvement
Dirk-Jan Hoogerdijk
Eurostat Unit C4
Price Statistics; Purchasing Power Parities; Housing Statistics

2. Main Changes BE & DK to start using SD in 2016
LU & PL expected to start using SD in 2017
Several NSIs in the process of applying SD to clothing, footwear etc.
Recommendations coming – this afternoon
Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

3. Visits
Preparatory to working on the recommendation on processing scanner data
Visits to BE (January); DK, NO & SE (March); NL (April) and CH (May)
Reports where published on CIRCA & hand- out at this meeting
Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

4. 2013 Grants Work started January 2014 Runs till March 2016
Value around 1.4 MEUR
SD: PL, PT, SI
WS: DE, IT, LU, NO, SE
ED: AT, HU, LU, NL, PT, SE
Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

5. 2014 Grants Work started November 2014 Runs till June 2016
Value around 2.0 MEUR
SD: AT, BE, ES, FI, IS, NL, PL, SE, SI, SK
WS: AT, BE, FI, SI
ED: ES
Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

6. 2015 Grants Still under evaluation 1 MEUR SD: 10 countries applied
WS: 7 countries applied
ED: 4 countries applied
Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

7. Future Eurostat involvement
Eurostat will continue to support work on the modernisation of price statistics through grants
Two workshops for grant recipients 2016:
Scanner data; Web scraping & electronic devices
Focus on: projects / sharing of information on progress difficulties and results
Scanner Data Workshop – Rome October 2015

8. Thank you for your attention!
Any Questions ?