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27-28 October 2011

Progress of the draft Council and European Parliament Regulation on the European Safety Survey (SASU)

27-28 October 2011 European Safety Survey 2

Background

Proposal for a regulation of the EP and Council on European Statistics on Safety from crime

Adopted by the Commission on 8 June 2011

Latest changes after ESSC discussion Feb. 2011– Regulation limited to a one-off operation in 2013

– No Delegated Act

– List of variables to be put in EP/Council regulation

– Timeliness: data to be sent by Member States by 31 July 2014 (instead of 31 October) and published by 31 December (instead of 31 March 2015)


State of play in the ‘Statistics’ Council Working Group

First presentation of the proposal, 12 July 2011

More detailed discussions on 20 September and 11 October

Next meeting 23 November, draft SASU manual and proposals on sampling approach to be presented

Further meeting 15 December, financial statement to be presented


Initial issues raised in the ‘Statistics’ Council Working Group

Comparability

– Different interview modes, period of interviews, etc.

– ‘Output harmonisation’

Financing

– 90% of eligible costs maximum

– How is this to be guaranteed?

Date for sending data

– Deadline 31 July 2014 too early for some countries

Content

– ‘Too long’, selection on a ‘need to know’ basis


Important changes suggested by Council Working Party New recital (10a) referring to report of European Data Protection

Supervisor, and reference to Directive 95/46/EC in Art.7

‘Metadata on quality’ replaced by ‘metadata’ (Art. 2)

“Data shall be collected on the basis of a sample of households or persons as set out in Article 5. The information on the socio-demographic background of respondents and technical variables may be taken from administrative sources” (Art. 4.1)

MSs to send data by 15 September 2014 (Art. 7), Commission to publish results by 15 February 2015 (Art. 9), MSs to send quality reports by 15 October 2014 (Art. 10)

Commission to compile report on the implementation of the Regulation by 31 December 2015 (Art. 10)

“The Commission (Eurostat) shall, in close co-operation with Member States, draw up a methodological manual which contains guidelines on the statistics produced pursuant to this Regulation, including definitions to be applied to the characteristics of the required information and common standards designed to ensure the quality of the data” (Art. 10a)


Annex I – Specific issues concerning variables, to be clarified in the SASU manual

1. Justification for details on ‘rare crime types’ such as robbery

2. Likelihood of burglary (replace with ‘worry about burglary’?)

3. Violence –some changes may be needed (such as ‘ever’ suggests lifetime experience, ‘pushed’ should consistently be ‘pushed or shoved’ , attempted sexual violence should precede actual sexual violence)

4. ‘Past relationships’ removed from background variables - should this now be included as a variable elsewhere or would an answer category (‘no present or previous partner’) be sufficient


Annex II – National territories that may be excluded from the survey

Addition of Gozo & Comino (Malta) and Gibraltar (UK)


Funding

1. EU will fund up to 90% of total eligible costs (Art. 11)

2. Presidency will collect from Member States necessary information to estimate costs (such as sample size, interview mode, one/several respondents per household)

3. Table to be included in legislative financial statement


State of play in the European Parliament

Rapporteur Timothy Kirkhope MEP, UK, Conservative

Committee Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

‘Tripartite meetings’ to be arranged


Implementing Act

Data coding scheme = List of variables

Details of Quality Report

Arrangements for sending microdata


Contents of SASU manualI.INTRODUCTION

1. Purpose of the documentII. SURVEY GUIDELINES

1. Ethics2. Age limits3. Interview training4. Translation5. Legal act/s6. Precision requirements and sample size7. Fieldwork

III. INTERVIEW GUIDELINES1. Selection of respondents2. List of variables (including the rationale, definition and guidance for

the interview)3. Priorities within victimisations4. SASU model questionnaire

IV. CODING INFORMATION1. Code book2. Classifications used3. Checking rules (applied to the data set delivered to Eurostat)

3.1 Data level checking rules3.2 Record level checking rules3.3 File level checking rules3.4 update history

V. ANNEXES:1. Results of some cognitive tests and pilots2. Content of quality report3. Pre-defined tables

VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY


Topics to be further developed in groups after the TF

1. Questions on crime (=screeners)PAGES 18-31

2. Questions on crime detailsPAGES 32-115

3. Attitude to law enforcement/security precautions, and feelings of safety/worries about crime PAGES 13-17, 116-124

4. Violence crimesPAGES 125-211

5. Other parts of the manual (survey guidelines etc)PAGES 1-7, 212-230

6. Sampling issuesPAGES 7-10


Specific objectives for this Task Force

1. (Art. 2 with new Art.10a on methodological manual) – justifying that the manual includes all issues raised by MS and setting the date of its final version availability.

2. (Art. 5) The questions to solve:to determine the method for choosing the real sample size to define the method for calculating the design effectto define precision requirements regarding population

estimates3. (Art. 6) The issue of number of persons interviewed within the one

household .4. (Annex I. 1.3) – justifying the breakdown by details for “rare” crimes

such as robbery.5. (Annex I. 4) The wording of last indent needs to be decided (“worries to

suffer a burglary” – as presidency proposes or “likelihood of burglary” as in the Commission proposal and as some MS suggest) – this does not mean the same but wording “worries to suffer a burglary” is more suitable as regards the title of section “Respondent’s feelings and worries...”.

6. (Annex I.5) The issue of “past relationships” needs to be determined (it was excluded from the legal text on the CWPS 11.10.2010 and Eurostat proposed to introduce it to the manual); it should be explained to MS whether it is just filter or a value needed for calculating violence rates.

27-28 October 2011

Thank you for listening

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Groups for topics

1. Questions on experience of crime (screeners)

Victor Garcia (PT),

2. Questions on crime details

Klara Klingspor (SE),

3. Attitude to law enforcement/

security precautions, feelings of safety/worries about crime

Klara Klingspor (SE),

4. Violence crimes Giusy Muratore (IT),

5. Other parts of the manual (survey guidelines etc)

6. Sampling issues Barbara Bauer (AT), Guillaume Osier (LU), Petr Nosal (CZ), Martins Liberts (LV)

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