2nd meeting of the
Working Group on Methodology (WGM)
Luxembourg, 5 April 2017
Eurostat building BECH, Room Ampere (9:30-17:00)
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9:30 |
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Validation |
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1.1 |
20' |
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Eurostat will inform about the latest developments and foreseen activities in the framework of the data validation ESS deployment project. In particular, on the work of the Task Force on Validation, the ongoing work of the ESSnet Validat Integration, the state of play for the Validation and Transformation Language. The Business and IT architecture as well as an approach for deploying harmonised documentation of validation rules and roles across statistical domains will be presented for potential comments. |
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1.2 |
10' |
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The ECB will present the BIRD (Bank's integrated Reporting Dictionary) project which uses VTL to describe validation rules. |
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1.3 |
Break-out sessions (methodology, architecture, services, VTL) |
50' |
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An introduction to the 4 break-out sessions will be given during 10 minutes, then 4 Break-out sessions of 40 minutes each will take place in parallel:
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10:50 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
15' |
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11:05 |
1.4 |
Conclusion of the break-out sessions |
40' |
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The spokespersons of each session will report on their sessions and an overall conclusion will be suggested. |
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11:45 |
2 |
Statistical confidentiality |
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2.1 |
45' |
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Eurostat will report on the projects and activities in the field of statistical confidentiality, in particular: on the results of the Centre of excellence on statistical disclosure control, on the development of public use files for EU-SILC and EU-LFS and on the progress in release of microdata for scientific purposes. |
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2.2 |
30' |
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Waivers (disclosure permissions) allow NSIs to reduce the number of confidential cells. Eurostat will present NSIs experiences and some recommendations for waivers' implementation. |
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13:00 |
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LUNCH BREAK |
60' |
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14:00 |
3 |
Statistical methods |
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3.1 |
30' |
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Italy and NL will present the deliverables of the WP2 of VIP ADMIN |
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3.2 |
30' |
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Eurostat will present methods that could be used to reduce self-selection bias, namely reweighting, modelling and its combination. |
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3.3 |
30' |
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Eurostat will present the draft ESS guidelines on temporal disaggregation, benchmarking and balancing. The aim is to help the ESS in the daily production of high frequency data from annual to quarterly to monthly figures |
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15:30 |
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COFFEE BREAK |
15' |
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15:45 |
4 |
Research and Innovation |
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4.1 |
Linked open data for the facilitation of third-party data analytics; DIGICOM Work Package 3.1 |
30' |
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Eurostat will present and seek feedback on the planned “linked open data” work package of DIGICOM. |
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4.2 |
30' |
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16:45 |
5 |
AoB |
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17:00 |
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END OF THE MEETING |
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