Country reports Rationale and user views Carole Jagger

Country reports: Rationale and user views Carole Jagger

Purpose of the Country Reports • To provide results of trends and trade-offs for each MS • in a standardised format • eaily readable • without ranking countries • To provide overall values for all the EU • To provide a simple explanation of HE issues including interpretation

Format Four A 4 pages on folded A 3 • Front • HE background

What is HE Calculating HE Data sources HE scenarios Index of report

Format Four A 4 pages on folded A 3 • Front • HE background • Back • Overall EU values

LE trends by gender DFLE trends by gender Contact details

Format Four A 4 pages on folded A 3 • Front • HE background • Back • Overall EU values • Middle • Left – trends over time • Right – trade-off between HE measures

LE and DFLE trends for women LE and DFLE trends for men Key results

HE using different measures – trade-offs Key results Other national results

Data sources • Issue 0 • ECHP for trends • Eurobarometer for different measures – trade-offs

Consultation • Issue 0 of the Country Reports was prepared for each country and sent with a questionnaire to: • Public Health network • Expert network • Questionnaire had open ended questions and covered the structure, format and layout, data sources, whether results were comparable to those from national series • Replies received from 12 Public Health and 17 Experts • Very positive feedback but disliked: • use of Eurobarometer • Use of compositie indicator from Eurobarometer

Future Country Reports • Issue 0 • ECHP for trends • Eurobarometer for different measures – trade-offs • Issue 1 • ECHP for trends • SILC (SHARE) for different measures – trade-offs • Further issues • SILC for trends and trade-offs • EHIS (better comparability across countries)

UK briefing for Ministers