1. Task Force Household Budget Survey Innovative tools and sources
CSPA recommendations, supporting:
comparable descriptions and defining an inventory of tools and sources
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. Sharing and reuse of new tools for data collection
Objective
Develop an inventory of tools and sources used for data collection to complete the survey:
to support comparibility and harmonisation of tools
- to facilitate the sharing and reuse of these tools in the ESS social statistics community.
ESS basecamp

3. Presentation Overview
CSPA: An instrument supporting harmonised description of tools
Information need: what information we would like to have in an inventory?

4. An instrument supporting harmonised description of tools

5. Common Statistical Production Architecture (CSPA)
CSPA is a reference architecture for the statistical industry, which has been developed and peer reviewed by the international statistical community.
covers statistical production across the processes defined by the Generic Statistical Business Production Model (GSBPM)
does not prescribe technology environments of statistical organizations.

6. Instruments to support the work of the TF: Usage of 2 templates: - CSPA Definition (concept) - CSPA Specification (logic)

7. Situation…
Work in progress for modernising the production of statistics is sometimes perceived as vague, difficult, doesn’t concern me, a burden for my daily work…

8. So some concrete "tools" defined…
Develop templates and guidelines for describing service definitions
Apply these for expressed business requirements
Develop a service catalogue incl. governance supporting day to day usage,
Eurostat hosts and maintains the service catalogue.

9. Service description development:
CSPA compliant
3 layers (for each a template exists):
Definition (conceptual)
Specification (logical)
Implementation(s) (physical)

10. Service Implementation - Usage
Case by case, depending on needs, requests of subject matter business units and NSI's (Business driven) reuse might not be the best solution for all needs…
Supports redesign of existing software solutions (IT driven - IT rationalisation strategy)

11. How to manage future tools maintenance?
Evolving needs (new variables, validaiton,..)
Tool specification and design
testing
maintain
Software development
Certification of tool
Working Group agreement
Quality assurance
ESS implementation (deployment)
ESS Coordination
How to manage future tools maintenance?

12. Social Statistics Service Certification
Governance need to be defined; procedure(s) to be described
Expert group (or this TF?) to look at service proposals, requests from Member States: new tools, update of tools
Expert group is a sub-group of the WG and reports back to the WG
Coordination role for Eurostat?
Service owners (could be MS or Eurostat) responsible for tool maintenance and support

13. How to manage these service descriptions?
Usage of an inventory for HBS (and TUS) related tools….
Preference for describing tools CSPA compliant to support comparability

14. How to manage these service descriptions?
We should keep
the bigger picture in mind!
Attractive data collection, increasing response rates and lower burden for respondents,
Thank you!
Obviously storage in the (or a) CSPA service catalogue is the goal