Working Group Meeting “Statistics on Living Conditions” 12-13 June 2018
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION EUROSTAT Directorate F: Social statistics Unit F-4: Income and living conditions; Quality of life LC/211/18/EN Working Group meeting “Statistics on Living Conditions” 12-13 June 2018 Eurostat-Luxembourg 3.2 SILC implementing regulation Commission européenne, 2920 Luxembourg, LUXEMBOURG - Tel. +352 43011 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat 1. INTRODUCTION Folowing the WG meeting in November 2017, comments were received regarding all the elements of the SILC regulation. Those comments are provided in the last part of to this document. As a reminder, the SILC implementing regulation will be accompanied by 4 annexes: Annex 1-definitions Annex 2-list of variables Annex 3-quality reports Annex 4- technical aspects of the fieldwork The discussion on list of variables (Annex 2 of the SILC Regulation) takes place stepwise. This discussion covers list of variables for the nucleus, answer modalities; classification into topics and subtopics-also variables on rolling modules that are not yet finalised; flags and is presented in a separated points 3.2c and 3.2e of the agenda. In addition variables that are not allowed to be asked by proxies will be defined in the Annex 2 following the discussions in the point 3.2d of the meeting agenda. Annex 3 on quality reports was already presented in relation to the SILC in 2017 and will be discussed once cross surveys draft regulation on quality reporting will be made available (most probably towards the end of this year), so that the SILC specific element can be identified and incorporated in the Annex 3 of the SILC regulation. The revised body text of the SILC Regulation as well as Annex 1 and 4 are presented in this document. In the section: COMMENTS RECEIVED ON THE REGULATION FOLLOWING THE SILC WG MEETING IN NOVEMBER 2017 all the comments received are presented below the article they refer to. 1.1. Tracing rules At the WG meeting in June 2017 modifications in the text of the implementing regulation were proposed to allow reconciliation of differences in the conditions for tracing rules between sample designs based on persons and households, as EU-SILC tracing rules are implemented differently in countries applying Selected Respondent Model (SRM) and Complete Household Model (CHM). That proposal caused discussion and controversies and since then, the discussion on the tracing rules concentrated on the issues related to the Selected Respondent Model. Elements of that discussion were the two consultations with the SRM countries on the possibility of collecting the extra data needed from split-off households available from registers and on topics for further work and possible studies related to tracing rules. The results of the consultation are available in the TF SILC document LC-LEGAL 02-18 Tracing rules (available here: https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/4ae97561-8aa4-435d-8a69-501ecd653a8f ). Proposals for possible ways for improvement of the situation of income estimates received during the consultations were for instance: 1 increasing sample size, more efficient sampling (stratification), weighting and calibration or developing methods for imputing data not available from registers. Moreover, as the degree of successful implementation of the of tracing rules is different between the countries using Complete Household Model (CHM), the elements proposed for consideration are of the relevance for more countries. Therefore, the topic will be discussed during the SILC workshop this year and is covered by the 2018 SILC grant action. All that to improve the way of following the tracing rules as recommended by the SILC WG in June 2017 by: Preparation of practical guidelines on implementation of tracing rules including recommendations on procedures for minimising non‑response and attrition (with possible more focus on specific sample groups); Establishing more rigorous monitoring of implementation of tracing rules (quality reports) including a revision of list of data collected on traced persons; Considering ways of post-correcting of attrition bias, for example harmonised approach in creating weights; Further support of exchange of information between NSIs and other experts (for example by means of workshops). The text of the Regulation in relation to the tracing rules presented in this document is therefore aiming to maintain the situation as it is defined in the old regulation. However the countries are invited to follow the improvement work. Further proposals on how the text should look like in the new SILC act will be presented following works to be covered by grants. 2. MAIN TEXT OF THE REGULATION In this section the revised text of the Regulation is proposed whenever convenient in track changes and commented if necessary. The WG members are requested to reflect on the proposal. Article 1 Aim 1. The aim of this Regulation is to implement in the domain of income and living conditions the provisions of the article 6, 7 and 12 of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council Deleted: 11 establishing a common framework for the production of European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level. Estat comment: The Article 11 of IESS refers to sampling frame. This is not followed up in the SILC Regulation, the reference is therefore deleted Article 2 Definitions For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply: (a) ‘year of data collection’: means the year in which the data is collected; 2 (b) ‘fieldwork period’: means the period of time in which the data collection from respondents is conducted; (c) ‘reference period’: means the period of time to which a particular item of information relates; (d) ‘private household’: means add the reference to IESS or cross domain act; (e) ‘cross-sectional data’: means the data pertaining to a given time or a certain time period; Comment [LA(1]: to be coherent with (f) ‘longitudinal data’: means the data pertaining to given subsequent reference periods, observed the definition of cross sectional data yearly over certain duration; Deleted: to individual or household level characteristics (g) 'initial sample': refers to the sample of households or persons at the time it is selected for Deleted: inclusion in EU-SILC; Deleted: over Deleted: time (h) 'achieved sample' means the sample that was successfully interviewed and the interview is accepted for the database; (h') 'age' refers to the age at the end of the income reference period; (i) 'sample persons' means members of the household in the initial sample aged at least 16 years minus half of duration of a panel (if applicable rounded upwards); (j) 'sample households' means a household containing at least one sample person; Comment [LA(2]: Moved to the (k) ‘selected respondent model' means a particular way of sampling that is based on individuals Article 4. (aged at least 16 years minus half of duration of a panel -if applicable rounded upwards). The Deleted: A sample household shall be household to which the selected respondent belongs is the sample household. included in EU-SILC for the collection or compilation of detailed information when it contains at least one sample person (l) 'current household members' means current members of the sample household at the time of aged 16 or more; data collection or compilation; Deleted: ¶ Deleted: the (m) 'co-residents' all current members of a sample household other than those defined above as Comment [LA(3]: moved to the article sample persons; 3 Deleted: In this model only selected (n) ‘household split’: Sample household from wave x is said to have been ‘split’ if its sample persons respondents are subject to collection of from wave x reside at the time of wave x+1 in more than one private household within the national data by interview at individual level; territories included in the target population; when a household split occurs, there will be one and Deleted: residents only one initial household and one or more split-off household, (o) 'initial households': If any sample person of the wave x still lives at the same address as the previous wave, then his/her household shall be defined as the ‘initial’ household. If no sample person lives at the address of the previous wave, then the household of the sample person who had the lowest person number for the previous wave shall be the initial household. Where this person is no longer alive or no longer in a private household within the national territory of the target population, the initial household shall be the household of the sample person with the next lowest person number.; Deleted: When a split has occurred, one (and only one) of the resulting households For the selected respondents model initial household means the household of the selected shall be defined as the ‘initial’ household respondent. (p) 'split-off households': One or more households after household split that are not initial household are called ‘split-off’ households; 3 Deleted: S (q) 'fusion': All sample persons from different sample households from the previous wave join together to form a new household; (r) 'imputation': refers to the generation of information, when it was missing, on the basis of statistical relationships which are mainly internal to the data set; (s) 'modelling': refers to the generation of information, when it was missing, that makes use of substantive relationships and information external to the data set; (t) 'collection unit': is the household or individual of certain characteristics to whom the collected information refers to; (u) ‘substitution’ refers to replacement in the first wave by other units of the original units selected in the sample which do not supply the required information, either because the address cannot be located or is inaccessible, or because the household refuses to cooperate, the entire household is temporarily away or the household is unable to respond.