Income and living conditions domain - SILC statistical infrastructure under IESS - SILC 2024 6-yearly variables on Access to services - Pilot study 2023 Infra-annual data collection

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Statistics Estonia (SE) conducts the annual Estonian Social Survey, which is the basis for preparing EU-SILC microdata (Estonian EU-SILC). In order to ensure conformity between statistics collected by different EU Member States, new regulations of Integrated European Social Statistics (IESS) 2021 are being implemented. According to the IESS regulation, the NSIs, Statistics Estonia among them are required to adapt a multiannual rolling planning on specific topics and subjects requested by policy users. One of the objectives of this project is to implement the 2024 EU-SILC modules according to the Commission Delegated Regulation (EL) of 3rd November 2022 supplements the Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables in the income and living conditions domain on access to service. The modules will be a part of the Estonian Social Survey (Estonian EU-SILC). The collected data is necessary for the Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs for policy making and to get an overview to prepare development plans and projects in the relevant field of research to make informed decisions. All collected data is comparable with other EU countries, which allows analysts and other data users to analyze the information on an international level. In addition, the mission of Statistics Estonia is to reflect the situation and changes in the society and offer information important for demographic, social, economic and environmental development of Estonia. Firstly, Statistics Estonia will conduct activities described under Objective 2 of the Call document -- new/amended variables in the EU-SILC data collection 3-yearly module and the 6-yearly module on Access to services for survey-year 2024. Secondly, Statistics Estonia will conduct activities described under Objective 1 of the Call document -- improvement of the longitudinal component in the EU-SILC data collection.