| Author (Corporate) | Council of the European Union, European Parliament |
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| Series Title | Official Journal of the European Union |
| Series Details | L 261I |
| Publication Date | 14/10/2019 |
| Content Type | Legislation |
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Summary: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 aiming to streamline the European social statistics collected at individual level. Further information: The European Statistical System (ESS) produces the statistical data used to assess Member States’ performance in the context of the European semester, to monitor the key targets of Europe 2020, to implement many Commission evaluation frameworks on employment and social developments, and to pave the way for a future strategic vision for Europe beyond Europe 2020. Over the years, the ESS has set up advanced tools to provide improved and comparable statistics for better policy making at the European level and in the Member States. The ESS is increasingly confronted with a growing need for statistical information for analysis, research and policy-making. Furthermore, statistical data should continue to meet the high quality standards of official statistics, including timeliness. Social statistics used at EU level are taken from a variety of sources: population censuses, aggregated administrative data, data from businesses and data on persons and households collected at individual level from samples. This initiative aims to streamline the European social statistics collected from samples and to make the data collection process more efficient and the statistical output more relevant. The Regulation aims to guarantee the comparability and coherence of the data in the long run. The system of European social surveys should be sufficiently robust and efficient, and should ensure that the high quality of statistics is maintained — which can be challenging given the continual change in this area of statistics: rapid innovation in methodologies and uses of IT, the availability of new data sources, changing needs and expectations of data users and continued pressure on available resources. |
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| Source Link | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.LI.2019.261.01.0001.01.ENG |
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| Subject Categories | Culture, Education and Research, Employment and Social Affairs |
| Subject Tags | Social Policy |
| Keywords | European Statistical System [ESS] |
| International Organisations | European Union [EU] |
