DIME/ITDG

JOINT DIME/ITDG

PLENARY MEETING

2/3 OF JULY 2019

Item 2

High-value datasets (HVDs)

Detailed dataset specifications
 High-value datasets (HVDs)
Detailed dataset specifications

1. INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this document is to inform the DIME and the ITDG of the draft
detailed lists of high-value datasets for:
 business statistics (Annex A.)
 macroeconomic statistics (Annex B.)
 social statistics (Annex C.).

that have been transmitted to the competent ESS Directors’ Groups (BSDG, DMES
and DSS, respectively) for their opinion, taking into account (i) the capacity of the
ESS to deliver, bearing in mind that it is the responsibility of the national
authorities in the EEA to make sure that the HVDs are disseminated:
(a) free of charge;
(b) machine readable;
(c) via Application Programme Interfaces (APIs); and
(d) made available for bulk download.
and (ii) the valued added for the users.
Jointly, these will form a list of high-value datasets for the statistics category – to
be submitted by Eurostat on behalf of the ESSC to the European Commission’s
Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
(Connect).
The DIME and ITDG are invited to take note of the draft lists, and reflect on
relevant accessibility/interoperability criteria and (joint) development needs, in the
view of the fact that preparedness to meet criteria (c) and (d) appears1 to be uneven
across the ESS.

2. BACKGROUND
The digital recovery will require the emergence of a real data economy as a motor
for innovation and job creation, as outlined in the Communication 2 adopted by the
Commission on 27 May as part of the Recovery Plan. In this context, making
government datasets available for the common good has an important role to play.
The Directive on ‘Open Data and the re-use of public sector information’ (the Open

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Summary of the outcome of the VIN consultation on HVDs (annex to document ESSC 2020/43/3/EN)
2
The EU budget powering the recovery plan for Europe 27.5.2020; Communication from the
Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic
and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions; (COM(2020) 442 final):
https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/index.cfm?fuseaction=list&coteId=1&year=2020&number=442&version=F
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 Data Directive; ODD)3 should improve re-use of governments’ data by the private
sector.
The Open Data Directive introduces the concept of high-value datasets (see
Article 2 list item 10 of the ODD) that are associated with high commercial
potential. Their re-use ‘…is associated with important benefits for society, the
environment and the economy, in particular because of their suitability for the
creation of value-added services, applications and new, high-quality and decent
jobs, and of the number of potential beneficiaries of the value-added services and
applications based on those datasets’.
As set out in chapter V of the ODD, a specific list of high-value datasets will be
adopted by the European Commission by means of an implementing act, together
with conditions and arrangements for access and re-use, e.g. terms applicable to re-
use, formats of data and metadata and technical arrangements for dissemination.
The specific high-value datasets shall be:
(a) available free of charge;
(b) machine readable;
(c) provided via Application Programme Interfaces (APIs); and
(d) made available for bulk download.
Statistics is explicitly listed (in Annex I to the ODD) as one of the thematic
categories in scope of the high-value dataset concept. Other categories comprise
geospatial, earth observation and environment, companies and company ownership,
and mobility. This is perceived as complementary to the European Data Spaces 4,
initiative, which foresees ‘data spaces for public administrations’ mainly devoted to
data on law and public procurement.
The European Commission will provide opportunities for funding projects to
improve the availability and use of high-value datasets under future Digital Europe
Programme. The programme will focus on building strategic digital capacities and
on facilitating the deployment of digital technologies within the EU. One strand will
be dedicated to ensuring that the public sector can deploy state of the art digital
technologies and to provide interoperable public services across the EU.
The definitive list of high-value datasets by category will be defined in an
implementing act. The European Commission (Connect) has commissioned an
impact assessment study on the list of high-value datasets to be made available by
the Member States under the Open Data Directive5. A tentative list of HVDs for all
areas has been proposed by Eurostat to Connect in April 2020, and full details for
each of the HVDs proposed should be provided by Eurostat in June 2020 in order
for it to be possible to use in the impact assessment study.
In its interactions with Connect, Eurostat has clarified that for the statistics category,
this detailed list will be developed jointly with the National Statistical Institutes of
the ESS.
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Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data
and the re-use of public sector information; available via
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=1561563110433&uri=CELEX:32019L1024.
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A European strategy for data (Communication COM(2020) 66 from the Commission to the European
Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the
Regions); available via
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/communication-european-strategy-data-19feb2020_en.pdf
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See: https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=4676
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 3. ESS EFFORTS TO DATE
3.1. Dedicated group
Following the timetable of the Commission for the preparation of the
implementing act, it would be timely to provide an indicative list of high-
value statistical products by May 2020.
In order to achieve this goal, the joint Steering Group of the ESS Directors
of Methodology (DIME) and the ESS IT Directors’ Group (ITDG) agreed at
its meeting on 12 Feb 2020 to extend the mandate of the group on using
privately held data for official statistics to elaborate a proposal for a common
list of high-value datasets in statistics.
3.2. ESSC opinion
The work of the dedicated group led to an ESS Vision Implementation
Network (VIN) consultation6, involving all ESS NSIs. Based on the
consultation outcome1 of, a proposal7 for statistics HVDs was made to the
ESSC. In its opinion (see Annex D.), the ESSC inter alia:
 accepted the approach to have a short list of high-value datasets
 underlined the importance of engaging with potential users when defining
the scope, content and granularity of the exercise
 tasked the Directors’ Groups with defining, for each dataset, the
exact scope and breakdown taking into account the capacity of the ESS
to deliver and the valued added for the users.

3.3. Preparation of detailed proposals for the ESS Directors’ Groups

To aid the Directors’ Groups in the task assigned to them by the ESSC,
Eurostat has conducted a structured analysis of the tentative list of statistics
HVDs7, and augmented it with several details for each dataset therein,
including:
 key variables
 relevant Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators
 frequency
 granularity/breakdowns (including regional breakdowns)
As an additional outcome of this analysis, some datasets have been merged,
added or renamed.
The resulting draft detailed lists are presented in Annex A. (business
statistics), Annex B. (macroeconomic statistics) and Annex C. (social
statistics). Pending the opinion of the competent ESS Directors’ Groups,
they have been transmitted to Connect for use in the study underlying the
impact assessment.

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The VIN consultation documents are available to each NSI (via their VIG/VIN representative) on
CIRCABC at https://europa.eu/!BY86RQ.
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Proposed list of high-value datasets in the statistics category (document ESSC 2020/43/3/EN):

https://circabc.europa.eu/ui/group/93919500-a22c-4172-ab6d-68ae21509331/library/7db2813e-b216-44cf-8c6a-fcf735d0df98/details
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 4. NEXT STEPS
Table 1 below outlines the main on-going and future steps of the procedure leading
to the formulation and subsequent adoption of the implementing act.

Table 1. On-going and future steps of the procedure leading to the formulation and
subsequent adoption of the implementing act regarding high-value datasets

Eurostat Transmit draft statistics HVD proposal (all domains) to Connect 4 June 2020

DMES, DSS, BSDG Opinions on the HVD proposals for the various domains 8-18 June 2020

Eurostat Transmit final statistics HVD proposal (all domains) to Connect 22 June 2020
Use of draft & final statistics HVD proposal in the study 5 underlying the impact
Connect assessment for the list of high-value datasets
throughout June 2020
Reflection on accessibility/interoperability criteria and joint development
DIME/ITDG 2-3 July 2020
needs/opportunities
Connect Drafting of Commission impact assessment July-Sep 2020
Updating and finalisation of the list statistics HVDs
Connect, RSB 2nd half of 2020
(as part of the full list of HVDs from all categories)
Open Data Committee Vote on the implementing act Feb 2021
Adoption of the implementing act
European Commission 1st half of 2021
(following formal consultations and Committee vote)
Member States Transposition of the Open Data Directive into national law 21 July 2021

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 ANNEX A. PROPOSED HIGH-VALUE DATASETS FOR BUSINESS STATISTICS
The six proposed high-value datasets for business statistics are presented in Table A1 below. Some additional details on key variables are provided in
Table A2, and for tourism flows in Europe, details on the breakdowns are provided in Table A3.
Table A1. Proposed high-value datasets for business statistics
Industrial Production in Retail trade EU International trade in goods
Dataset Industrial producer price index Tourism flows in Europe
production construction volume statistics – exports and imports
Production in Nights spent at tourist
Industrial Industrial producer price index Retail trade
construction Statistical value accommodation
production index (PRON) volume index
index establishments
Domestic industrial producer price
Net mass Participation in tourism
index (PRIN)
Key variables Non-domestic industrial producer Tourism trips made by EU
Supplementary quantity
price index (PREN) residents
Non-domestic industrial producer Tourism nights spent by EU
price index, non-euro area (PREX) residents
Non-domestic industrial producer Tourism expenditure made by
price index, euro area (PREZ) EU residents
Activity8 9 9 9
Activity – CC10  11

Partner12 
Product13 
Flow14 
Country of origin 
Type of trip 
Breakdowns Duration of the trip 
Destination country 
Means of transport 
Means of accommodation 
Booking modalities 
Profile of the tourist/visitor 
Coastal vs non- Degree of urbanisation
Region –
coastal areas + specific cities
Frequency Yearly       
Quarterly    

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By NACE Rev 2
9
Breakdown up to 4-digit NACE activity code, depending on the size of the reporting country
10
By Classification of Types of Construction (CC)
11
The granularity of the activity (CC) breakdown is depending on the size of the reporting country
12
By Nomenclature of Countries and Territories for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (GEONOM); breakdown by partner Member State/country.
13
By Combined Nomenclature (CN); at 8-digit level.
14
Exports/imports.
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 Monthly      
SDG indicators
 
No sufficiently closely associated SDG indicators were identified for any of the proposed business statistics high-value datasets

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 Table A2. Details on the key variables of the proposed high-value datasets for
business statistics
Dataset Key variable
Industrial production Industrial production index
Industrial producer price index
(PRON)
Domestic industrial producer price
index (PRIN)
Non-domestic industrial producer
Industrial producer price index
price index (PREN)
Non-domestic industrial producer
price index, non-euro area (PREX)
Non-domestic industrial producer
price index, euro area (PREZ)
Production in construction Production in construction index
Retail trade volume Retail trade volume index
Statistical value
EU International trade in goods
Net mass
statistics – exports and imports
Supplementary quantity
Nights spent at tourist
accommodation establishments
Participation in tourism
Tourism flows in Europe Tourism trips made by EU residents
Tourism nights spent by EU residents
Tourism expenditure made by EU
residents
Details
Volume index of industrial production compared to base year, seasonally and calendar adjusted
Index of producer prices (output prices) in industry, compared to base year, unadjusted
Index of producer prices (output prices) in industry on the domestic market, compared to base year,
unadjusted
Index of producer prices (output prices) in industry outside the domestic market, compared to base year,
unadjusted
Index of producer prices (output prices) in industry outside the domestic market, into countries outside the
euro-zone, compared to base year, unadjusted
Index of producer prices (output prices) in industry outside the domestic market, into euro-zone countries,
compared to base year, unadjusted
Volume index of production in construction compared to base year, seasonally and calendar adjusted
Index of retail trade volume of sales (deflated turnover) compared to base year, seasonally and calendar
adjusted
Value of the goods at the time and place they cross the border of the Member State of export, on export,
and of the Member State of import, on import.
Actual mass of the goods excluding all packaging
Quantity other than net mass, according to the Combined Nomenclature in force during the reference
period
Supply side information on domestic and inbound tourism
Share of the population (15+) that make tourism trips during a given reference year
Demand side information on domestic and outbound tourism trips
Demand side information on domestic and outbound tourism nights
Demand side information on domestic and outbound tourism expenditure

Table A3. Details on the breakdowns proposed for tourism flows in Europe
Dimension
Country of origin
Type of trip
Duration of the trip
Destination country
Means of transport
Means of accommodation
Booking modalities
Categories Scope
Residents; non-residents Only for Nights spent (key variable 1)
Long; short; domestic; outbound Only for Participation (key variable 2)
Units, in number of nights
By country of the world (sample size permitting) Only for demand side information (key variables 3, 4, 5)15:
7 categories16  Tourism trips made by EU residents
 Tourism nights spent by EU residents
7 categories16
 Tourism expenditure made by EU residents
Various attributes16

15
The sample size can determine the possible level of granularity.
16
See Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 692/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of
6 July 2011 concerning European statistics on tourism
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 ANNEX B. PROPOSED HIGH-VALUE DATASETS FOR MACROECONOMIC STATISTICS
The six proposed high-value datasets for macroeconomic statistics are presented in Table B1 below. Some additional details on key variables are
provided in Table B2.
Table B1. Proposed high-value datasets for macroeconomic statistics
National accounts – GDP main aggregates (including National accounts – key indicators National accounts – key indicators Consolidated government
Dataset Consumer Price Index Government expenditure and revenue
population and employment) on corporations on households gross debt
HICP Monthly data P51G - Gross fixed capital Government gross debt
GDP[B1GQ] – Gross domestic product at market Disposable income of households
(index) formation of nonfinancial Total general government revenue
prices – gross (B6G)/net (B6N)
corporations
HICP Monthy data B2A3G - Gross operating surplus P51G - Gross fixed capital
GVA[B1G] – Value added, gross Total expenditure
(monthly rate of change) and mixed income formation for households
HICP Monthly data HFC[P31_S14] – Final consumption expenditure of F.A - Total households sector Net lending/ net borrowing of general
Key variables (annual rate of change) households F.A - Total financial sector assets assets government (B.9)
HICP Annual data F.L - Total financial sector F.L - Total households sector
GFCF[P51G] – Gross fixed capital formation
(index) liabilities liabilities
HICP Annual data (rate
CE[D1] – Compensation of employees
of change)
POP – population and EMP[ETO] – Total
employment figures transmitted in national accounts
Purpose17 
Industry18 19
Asset type20 21
Breakdowns Revenue category22 
Expenditure category23 
Gross debt category24 
Regional NUTS 225 NUTS226
Yearly     
Frequency Quarterly    27 
Monthly 

17
By Classification of individual consumption by purpose (COICOP)
18
By NACE Rev. 2
19
For gross value added, income and employment
20
By AN_F6
21
The granularity of the activity (CC) breakdown is depending on the size of the reporting country
22
Defined in ESA 2010 8.100 and chapter 20 by reference to a list of categories: Market output, output for own final use, payments for non-market output, taxes on production and imports, other subsidies on production,
receivable property income, current taxes on income, wealth, etc., net social contributions, other current transfers and capital transfers
23
Defined in ESA 2010 8.100 and chapter 20 by reference to a list of categories: intermediate consumption, gross capital formation, compensation of employees, other taxes on production, subsidies, payable property income,
current taxes on income, wealth, etc., social benefits other than social transfers in kind, social transfers in kind - purchased market production, other current transfers, adjustments for the change in pension entitlements, capital
transfers and acquisitions less disposals of non-financial non-produced assets.
24
Categories of government liabilities (as defined in ESA 2010): currency and deposits (AF.2), debt securities (AF.3) and loans (AF.4).
25
NUTS 3 for GDP/GVA at current prices
26
NUTS 2 currently available only for net disposable income (B6N) of households
27
Quarterly frequency only for key variable 1 (Gross fixed capital formation of nonfinancial corporations) for sector S1M combining households (S14) and non-profit institutions serving households (S15)
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 sdg_08_11 – Investment share of sdg_08_11 – Investment share of sdg_17_50 – Share of environmental sdg_17_40 – General
SDG indicator sdg_08_10 – Real GDP per capita
GDP by institutional sectors GDP by institutional sectors taxes in total tax revenues government gross debt

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Table B2. Details on the key variables of the proposed high-value datasets for macroeconomic statistics
Dataset Key variable Details
HICP Monthly data (index) Monthly HICP index, 2015=100
HICP Monthy data (monthly rate of
Change in HICP monthly index compared to previous month
change)
Consumer Price Index HICP Monthly data (annual rate of
Change in HICP monthly index compared same month in previous year
change)
HICP Annual data (index) Annual HICP index, 2015=100
HICP Annual data (rate of change) Change in HICP annual index to previous year
GDP[B1GQ]
– Gross domestic product at market Current prices and volumes/derived growth rates
prices
GVA[B1G] – Value added, gross Current prices and volumes/derived growth rates
HFC[P31_S14]
– Final consumption expenditure of Current prices and volumes/derived growth rates
National accounts – GDP main
households
aggregates (including
GFCF[P51G] – Gross fixed capital
population and employment) Current prices and volumes/derived growth rates
formation
CE[D1] – Compensation of
Current prices
employees
POP – population and EMP[ETO] -
Total employment figures transmitted Persons and hours worked; derived growth rates
in national accounts
P51G - Gross fixed capital formation
Current prices
of nonfinancial corporations 28
National Accounts – Key B2A3G - Gross operating surplus and
Current prices
indicators on corporations mixed income29
F.A - Total financial sector assets Current prices, non-consolidated (concept similar to the MIP indicator on total financial sector assets)
F.L - Total financial sector liabilities Current prices, non-consolidated (concept similar to the MIP indicator on total financial sector assets)
B6G - Gross disposable income of
current prices, derived in 'per-capita' and 'realterms per capita'
households
P51G - Gross fixed capital formation
National Accounts – Key current prices
for households
indicators on households
F.A - Total households sector assets Current prices, non-consolidated (concept similar to the MIP indicator on total financial sector assets)
F.L - Total households sector
Current prices, non-consolidated (concept similar to the MIP indicator on total financial sector assets)
liabilities
Total general government revenue is defined in ESA 2010 8.100 and chapter 20 by reference to a list of
categories: market output, output for own final use, payments for non-market output, taxes on production
Total general government revenue
and imports, other subsidies on production, receivable property income, current taxes on income, wealth,
etc., net social contributions, other current transfers and capital transfers
Total general government expenditure is defined in ESA 2010 8.100 and chapter 20 by reference to a list of
Government expenditure and categories: intermediate consumption, gross capital formation, compensation of employees, other taxes on
revenue production, subsidies, payable property income, current taxes on income, wealth, etc., social benefits other
Total expenditure
than social transfers in kind, social transfers in kind - purchased market production, other current transfers,
adjustments for the change in pension entitlements, capital transfers and acquisitions less disposals of non-
financial non-produced assets.
Net lending/ net borrowing of general
Balancing item of government revenue and expenditure
government (B.9)
government debt is defined as the total consolidated gross debt at nominal value in the following categories
Consolidated government gross
Government gross debt of government liabilities (as defined in ESA 2010): currency and deposits (AF.2), debt securities (AF.3) and
debt
loans (AF.4).

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Key variable 1 to be used for calculating the Gross investment rate of non-financial corporations (P51 / B1G*100)
29
Key variable 2 to be used for calculating the Gross profit share of non-financial corporations (B2G_B3G / B1G*100)
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 ANNEX C. PROPOSED HIGH-VALUE DATASETS FOR SOCIAL STATISTICS

The eight proposed high-value datasets for social statistics are presented in Table C1 below. Some additional details on key variables and SDG indicators
are provided in Table C2 and Table C3, respectively. The proposed breakdowns of total healthcare expenditure are presented in detail in Table C4.

Table C1. Proposed high-value datasets for social statistics

Total healthcare
Dataset Population Birth rate Death rate Poverty rate Inequality Employment Unemployment
expenditure
Population Total healthcare People at risk of poverty or Income quintile share ratio Employment rate of Unemployment rate of
Crude birth rate Crude death rate
on 1 January expenditure social exclusion rate S80/S20 people aged 20 to 64 people aged 15 to 74
Fertility rates by Gini coefficient of equivalised Long-term unemployment
Median age Infant mortality rates At-risk-of-poverty rate
mother's age disposable income rate of people aged 15 to 74
Old age Severe material deprivation
Total fertility rate
dependency ratio rate
Key variables
Material and social
deprivation rate
Child specific material
deprivation
People living in households
with very low work intensity
sdg_03_41 sdg_01_10 sdg_10_41 sdg_04_50 sdg_08_20
sdg_03_42 sdg_01_20 sdg_10_50 sdg_05_30 sdg_08_40
SDG indicators sdg_08_60 sdg_01_30 sdg_08_30
sdg_11_40
sdg_16_10
Sex     
Age      30  31
Education attainment level32    
Marital status 
Citizenship  
Country of birth  
Breakdowns Human development index 
Most frequent activity status 
Income quintile 
Healthcare functions 
Healthcare providers 
Healthcare financing schemes 
Region NUTS 3 NUTS 3 NUTS 3 NUTS 2 NUTS 233 NUTS 2 NUTS 2

30
Classes: 20-24 years, 25-29 years, 30-34 years, … , 55-64 years
31
Classes: 15-24 years, 25-54 years, 55-74 years
32
By ISCED 2011
33
Only for S80/S20 – no subnational breakdown for the Gini coefficient.
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 Table C2. Details on the key variables of the proposed high-value datasets for social statistics
Dataset Key variable
Population on 1 January
Population Median age
Old age dependency ratio
Crude birth rate
Fertility rates by mother's age the ratio of the number of live births to mothers of age x
Birth rate
(age specific fertility rate)
Total fertility rate
Crude death rate
Death rate
Infant mortality rates
Total healthcare expenditure Total healthcare expenditure
People at risk of poverty or
social exclusion rate
At-risk-of-poverty rate
Severe material deprivation
rate
Poverty rate
Material and social deprivation New concept of deprivation excluding some durables and replacing them by social items (e.g., leisure activity, get
rate
Child specific material
deprivation
People living in households
with very low work intensity
Income quintile share ratio
S80/S20
Inequality
Gini coefficient of equivalised deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. It is a summary measure of the cumulative share of equivalised
disposable income
Employment EMPL
UNEMPL
Unemployment
LTUNEMPL
Details
Proportion of people 65+ to people 20-64
The ratio of the number of live births during the year to the average population in that year.
The value is expressed per 1000 population.
to the average female population of age x.
Mean number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through and
survive her childbearing years conforming to the fertility rates by age of a given year.
The ratio of the number of deaths during the year to the average population in that year. The value is expressed
per 1000 population.
The ratio of the number of deaths of children under one year of age during the year to the number of live births in
that year. The value is expressed per 1000 live births.
Current healthcare expenditure quantifies the economic resources dedicated to health functions, excluding capital
investment. It measures the final consumption expenditure of resident units on health care goods and services.
Percentage of people either at risk of poverty or in severe material deprivation or living in a household with very
low work intensity
Percentage of people living in a household which disposable income is lower than 60% of the average national
disposable income
Percentage of people living in a household than cannot afford at least 4 of 9 items considered to be desirable or
even necessary to lead an adequate life
with friends)
New concept of deprivation for children including child specific deprivation items and some households
deprivation items
Percentage of people living in a household where the members of working age worked less than 20 % of their
total potential during the previous 12 months
The ratio of total income received by the 20 % of the population with the highest income (top quintile) to that
received by the 20 % of the population with the lowest income (lowest quintile)
This variable measures the extent to which the distribution of equivalised disposable income after social transfers
income accounted for by the cumulative percentages of the number of individuals. Its value ranges from 0
(complete equality) to 100 (complete inequality).
Employment rate of people aged 20 to 64
Unemployment rate of people aged 15 to 74
Long term unemployment rate of people aged 15 to 74

Table C3. Details on the SDG indicators to be provided as part of the social statistics HVDs
Dataset SDG indicator code SDG indicator title
sdg_03_41 Standardised death rate due to tuberculosis, HIV and hepatitis by sex
sdg_03_42 Standardised preventable and treatable mortality
Death rate sdg_08_60 People killed in accidents at work
sdg_11_40 People killed in road accidents
sdg_16_10 Standardised death rate due to homicide by sex
sdg_01_10 People at risk of poverty or social exclusion
Poverty sdg_01_20 People at risk of income poverty after social transfers
sdg_01_30 Severely materially deprived people
sdg_10_41 Income distribution (quintile share ratio)
Inequality
sdg_10_50 Income share of the bottom 40 % of the population
sdg_04_50 Employment rates of recent graduates by sex
Employment sdg_05_30 Gender employment gap
sdg_08_30 Employment rate by sex
sdg_08_20 Young people neither in employment nor in education and training by sex (NEET)
Unemployment
sdg_08_40 Long-term unemployment rate by sex

Table C4. Details on the breakdowns proposed for total healthcare expenditure
Dimension Description Categorisation34 Classes
H1+HC2: HC.1.1+HC.2.1, HC.1.2+HC.2.2, HC1.3+HC.2.3, HC1.4+HC.2.4
HC.3: HC.3.1, HC.3.2, HC.3.3, HC.3.4
Healthcare Type of need that healthcare goods and services aim to satisfy or
ICHA-HC HC.4;
functions the kind of health objective pursued.
HC.5: HC.5.1, HC.5.2
HC.6; HC.7; HC.9.
The organisations and actors that deliver healthcare goods and
Healthcare
services as their primary activity, as well as those for which ICHA-HP HP.1; HP.2; HP.3; HP.4; HP.5; HP.6; HP.7; HP.8; HP.9; HP.0.
providers
healthcare provision is only one among a number of activities.
Healthcare HF.1: HF.1.1, HF.1.2: HF.1.2.1, HF.1.2.2;
Types of financing arrangements through which healthcare goods
financing ICHA-HF HF.2: HF.2.1, HF.2.2, HF.2.3;
and services are paid for and obtained by people.
schemes HF.3; HF.4.

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Opinion

1. The ESSC stressed that all official statistics are of equal high value. While some delegates
emphasised that the full ESS statistical acquis should be given the status of high-value dataset, the
majority was in favour of a narrowed down approach. To practically contribute to the Open Data
Directive exercise, a list of high-value datasets for the statistics thematic category was agreed to start
with.
2. The ESSC underlined the importance of engaging with potential users when defining the scope,
content and granularity of the exercise.
3. The ESSC acknowledged that official statistics based on new privately held data sources (such as
data held by Mobile Network Operators) should be included in the list of HVDs for the statistics
thematic category when available.
4. The ESSC indicated the need for subsequent revisions of the implementing act and expected that
the initial list of HVDs for the statistics thematic category is expanded in a next revision in a few
years’ time.
5. The ESSC underlined the importance of the availability of high-value datasets for the thematic
categories of geospatial data, earth observation, and companies and company ownership, given their
importance as input for the production and enrichment of European statistics.
6. The ESSC tasked the Directors’ Groups with defining, for each dataset, the exact scope and
breakdown taking into account the capacity of the ESS to deliver and the valued added for the users.
7. The ESSC asked Eurostat to submit this opinion to DG Connect and expressed its wish to continue
discussing the topic.

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