Increasing availability of data at the European level

Increasing availability of data at the European level – How to make recommendation A. (Table Design) operational A small remark in the context of the Recommendations for confidentiality management in business statistics 8 th meeting of the Expert Group on statistical disclosure control (EG SDC), 1 December 2016 Topic 3. 4 „Business Statistics Recommendations “ Sarah GIESSING Federal Statistical Office of Germany Division Mathematical Statistical Methods © Statistisches Bundesamt, Mathematical – Statistical Methods Division

Recommendation A. Table design “When designing the standard data requirements for European business statistics, careful consideration needs to be given to the level of detail in all the dimensions of the tables, in order to optimise the balance between the desired high level of detail and the resulting confidentiality suppressions especially in small MS” © Statistisches Bundesamt, Mathematical – Statistical Methods Division

Recommendation A. Table design Idea (Maxime Bergeat, 24/02/2016) (To make it operational): n Eurostat to propose to MS several table designs (with a hierarchical structure to enable comparability between countries) for European demands and then MS can choose table design depending on: n Size of the country n Rules used for primary suppression in the country n Number of suppressed cells in the tables n Consistency with dissemination of other results from the same source at national level © Statistisches Bundesamt, Mathematical – Statistical Methods Division

How to make this work…(comments Sarah) MS-choice designs are useful on NUTS levels below MS-level, obviously n MS-choice designs used at the MS level, can be expected to be useful for the information content of the national tables. n MS-choice designs used at the MS level can be useful for the information content of the European level tables, ONLY if: n A. There is a single, fixed design and all MS deliver the data to Eurostat according to this design n Otherwise no progress: Eurostat can't provide NACE-3 -level European data, if smaller countries don't deliver NACE-3 level data (for example), even if the large MS do deliver. n B. Countries chosing a more aggregate MS-choice design commit themselves not to publish more detailed data at the National level n © Statistisches Bundesamt, Mathematical – Statistical Methods Division

How to make this work…(comments Sarah) If A and B is agreed, then Eurostat can compute the European figures at the detailed (fixed design) level. n Eurostat can do disclosure control taking into account that the detailed level figures remain unpublished anyway for some MS n i. e. prefer (give low costs to) such cells when selecting/computing secondary suppressions n © Statistisches Bundesamt, Mathematical – Statistical Methods Division