1. Innovative sources and tools for living conditions surveys
New project, supporting upcoming work for HBS and TUS
28/09/ Hubertus Cloodt
European Commission, DG Eurostat the statistical office of the European Union
Unit F4 – Income and living conditions; Quality of life

2. Background Burden reduction on respondents
Need for better information on household budgets
Decreasing response rates
Data comparability
Increase attractiveness of surveys
Data coverage
New
data sources
use of available
technologies, hardware,..

3. Project main objectives
2. Identify tool(s) and prototype specification
1. Reuse of existing (Big) data sources
Shouldn't you develop an App?
Calm down! First to test this paper prototype…
Draft Methodology
Identify
Tools
Identify
Sources
Specificationof functions
Prepare testing

4. Expected main outcomes
Support for …
Work being done in the TFs HBS and TUS on innovation….
Methodological development taking into account identified data sources to be reused in the data collection process for HBS and TUS
Identifying classifications and data structure definitions supporting standardisation for data exchange based on identified new data sources
Update of referential metadata and quality information
Inventory of tools and harmonisation of tool descriptions
Specification prototype

5. Prototype specification
Main tasks defined
Tools
Inventory
Support the Task Forces with identification of suitable tools and needs for data collection: using CSPA templates to harmonise description of tools
Develop an inventory containing descriptions of tools incl. relationship with HBS and TUS
Source Inventory
Support the Task Forces with identification of suitable data sources
Develop an inventory containing descriptions of data sources incl. relationship with HBS and TUS
Methodological work
Participate in methodological work in the Task Forces
Examples: describe in detail improvements proposed by the task forces: possible impact on variables, standardising future data collection, impact on ESS production process for social stats
Prototype specification
Work on a prototype specification for modernised data collection for variables in the current surveys, using as input results of work carried out by the Task Forces
Create definition and specification of the business needs resulting form the task forces
Task Forces support
Demonstrations, presentations
Contributions: participate in discussions on different platforms

6. Organisation and planning
Eurostat provides budget and caries out the project management
Start: November End: December 2018
Preparation of inputs for task force meetings
Contacts with Task force members ( , phone, video conference) to support on going work in the TF

7. Thank you!