1. Task Force Household Budget Survey Innovative tools and sources
New project to support innovation in social statistics
Luxembourg, December 2017
12/12/ Hubertus Cloodt
European Commission, DG Eurostat the statistical office of the European Union
Unit F4 – Income and living conditions; Quality of life

2. Project Modernising Data Collection in HBS and TUS
Overview
Project Modernising Data Collection in HBS and TUS
1. History
2. Global planning
3. Support

3. 1. History
The 2011 DGINS Wiesbaden's Memorandum stressed «the need for better information from time use and household budgets in terms of coverage and comparability »

4. The need was confirmed:
to explore and implement new possibilities for improved responsiveness to user needs
to better link the data collection with other data sources
for more efficient data collection for Member States, taking into account new technological developments for both surveys

5. To find solutions to :
Lower the burden of the surveys' data collection on respondents in Member States
Increase the subsequent low and/or decreasing response rates
Lower the burden for NSIs on completing the surveys

6. Resulting in more attractive ways
of collecting the data for HBS by using:
use of shop cards
credit cards
scanning of receipts
use of smartapps to register data
other forms of access to big data

7. Current instruments to work towards these goals put in place:
Task Forces defined and adopted; currently running until end 2018
Eurostat internal Business Case for modernisation of HBS and TUS; presented to Eurostat senior management
Specific contract set up focus on supporting the work on modernisation which includes the Task Forces.

8. Further instruments which might become activated:
Grants for the development and maintenance of tools: support for system owners (which can be in the MSs)
For tools for which Eurostat would take responsibility cooperation with the Eurostat IT solutions unit
Grants for the implementation of such tools in MSs
Cooperation with other ESS Task Forces like TF Big Data
Registration of ESS tools for HBS (and TUS) data collection in the CSPA service catalogue

9. 2. Global planning Two phases have been defined:
Phase 1: now – until the end of 2019
Phase 2: 2020 – until the end of 2024

10. Phase 1
Period
Deliverables/Results
Inventory of tools and sources, containing description of existing solutions and ongoing projects for data collection in MS. Furthermore, an indication of future more harmonised solutions should be registered.
First description/prototype of an innovative tool for data collection.
Assessment of future data needs for data collected in both survey, starting with the 2020 HBS and TUS rounds (but focus is on 2025), including inputs for updating guidelines and methodological documents.
2019
First version of a tool supporting Member States with survey data collection

11. Phase 2
Period
Deliverables/Results
Full implementation in Member States of tools and data sources to be used to complete the surveys in a modern and attractive way for respondents. A detailed list of deliverables will become available by the end of 2018 as TF output.

12. Decreasing response rates
3. Support via specifc contract
Data coverage
Need for better information on household budgets
Decreasing response rates
Data comparability
Increase attractiveness of surveys
Burden reduction
on respondents
New
data sources
use of available
technologies, hardware,..

13. 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…
Update
Methodology
Identify
Tools
Identify
Sources
Specificationof functions
Prepare testing

14. Expected main outcomes
Support for …
Work being done in the TFs TUS and HBS 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

15. Main tasks defined
Tools
and
Sources
Inventory
Support the Task Forces with identification of suitable tools and data sources for data collection: using CSPA templates to harmonise description of tools
Develop an inventory containing descriptions of tools and data sources incl. their relationship with HBS and TUS

16. Prototype specification
Main tasks defined
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

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

18. Thank you!