1. Standardisation of social variables – progress report Item 3
Standardisation of social variables – progress report Item 3.4 of the agenda
DSS Meeting 3 and 4 October 2017

2. Draft list of P3 variables
Private household definition proposal

3. Standardised variables 1/3
November 2013, DSS issued a mandate for activities to
standardise variables across social micro-data collections
List of 28 variables
October 2016, 13 variable descriptions endorsed (P1)
March 2017, 14 additional variables endorsed (P2)
Variable 28 'current household income', not part of the consultation
March 2017, agreement to prepare a draft P3 list

4. Standardised variables 2/3
All variables present in more than one micro-data collection have been screened
P3 variables selected:
final step of 'standardisation of social variables'
10 new variables plus former P2 'current household income'
Variables not included in P3 list:
similar variables but different concept/purpose in each data collection
same variables/concepts but different implementation

5. Standardised variables 3/3
Draft P3 list
P3 variables
Data collections
Income
(28) Current household income
AES, EHIS, ICT HH, HBS, HETUS, SILC
Labour market
(29) Existence of previous employment experience / person ever worked
LFS, SILC
(30) Size of the local unit of the main job
AES, LFS, SILC
(31) Supervisory responsibilities
(32) Year in which the person started working for his/her current employer or as self-employed
AES, LFS
Education
(33) Year when the highest level of education was successfully completed
(34) Field of the highest level of education successfully completed
Technical variables
(35) Data collection mode / Interviewing mode used
(36) Type of interview / Nature of participation in the survey
(37) Strata
(38) Primary Sampling Units (PSU)

6. Private household Proposal for definition:
person living alone or a group of people who live together providing themselves with the essentials of living, as either
- one person household
- multi-person household
In case of inability to establish criteria for one-person vs. multi-person household, opinion of interviewee to be considered
Concerns persons who are the 'usual residents'

7. The 'usual residence' concept
to be further developed
in line with population and demography Regulations

8. Eurostat invites the DSS to
Endorse the standardisation process of P3 variables
Endorse or comment on the proposal for 'Private household' definition