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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11608
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SOCIAL AFFAIRS / Social affairs

Commission wants to boost efficiency of data collection and production

On Wednesday 24 August, the European Commission unveiled a draft regulation to improve data collection in the social domain from 2019 onwards.

"Good policies start with good data", said EU Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner Marianne Thyssen as she presented the initiative. 

The Commission says the draft framework regulation will boost the comparability and coherence of social statistics in the EU by grouping together seven household surveys currently used in the EU, and by...