Scanner Data:
Main changes and
Eurostat's involvement
Dirk-Jan Hoogerdijk
Eurostat Unit C4
Price Statistics; Purchasing Power Parities; Housing Statistics
Main Changes
 BE & DK to start using SD in 2016
 LU & PL expected to start using SD in 2017
 Several NSIs in the process of applying SD to
clothing, footwear etc.
 Recommendations coming – this afternoon
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Visits
 Preparatory to working on the
recommendation on processing scanner data
 Visits to BE (January); DK, NO & SE (March);
NL (April) and CH (May)
 Reports where published on CIRCA & handout at this meeting
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2013 Grants
 Work started January 2014
 Runs till March 2016
 Value around 1.4 MEUR
o SD: PL, PT, SI
o WS: DE, IT, LU, NO, SE
o ED: AT, HU, LU, NL, PT, SE
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2014 Grants
 Work started November 2014
 Runs till June 2016
 Value around 2.0 MEUR
o SD: AT, BE, ES, FI, IS, NL, PL, SE, SI, SK
o WS: AT, BE, FI, SI
o ED: ES
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2015 Grants
 Still under evaluation
 1 MEUR
o SD: 10 countries applied
o WS: 7 countries applied
o ED: 4 countries applied
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Future Eurostat involvement
 Eurostat will continue to support work on the
modernisation of price statistics through
grants
 Two workshops for grant recipients 2016:
• Scanner data; Web scraping & electronic devices
• Focus on: projects / sharing of information on
progress difficulties and results
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Summing up and taking away 1
 We saw a successful implementation of SD in BE
using existing SD methodologies (NL\CH).
 Developments in LU, IT, PL coming along fast
 Impact assessment: we need to look into this
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Summing up and taking away 2
 For recommendation obtaining SD issues raised
will addressed. Before end of the month.
 For recommendation on processing SD: issues
put forward will be incorporated into the draft.
 Combined into one.
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Summing up and taking away 3
 QU-method: developments not ended
 CIA: a framework to look into when making index
formula choices at EA level
 Taking the correctness of data at face value:
know your data!
 IT: the not-so-neutral choices and effects when
considering sampling and index formula
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Coming up 2016
 2016 WS on SD by Eurostat
 2016 WS on Web Scraping and electronic devices
 2016 Recommendation on processing – at least
the draft. A lot of input at this workshop. Much
discussion ahead.
 SD into the manual. A chapter?
 SD in legal framework?
 SD questionnaire to be repeated in 2016
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Thank you for
your attention!
Any Questions ?