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The revised Commission Regulation on access to confidential data for scientific purposes is currently under adoption and is expected to be implemented in the course of July 2013.
To guarantee the smooth transition between both regulations and related administrative changes, microdata access requests received up to 30th of March 2013 will continue to be handled under the current procedures. Microdata access requests received as from 1st of April 2013 will fall under the new scheme, which will be applicable as from the date of entry into force of the new Commission Regulation.
The main change in procedures consists in the fact that as from July 2013 all entities requesting access to microdata will have to be first recognized as eligible for access. This will be required only once for all future access requests. The other important change is that the contract will be replaced by a licence (confidentiality undertaking).
Running contracts will continue to be valid and only affected in the case of amendments to the contract.
Information about new procedures for microdata access will be published on this website in due course.
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Microdata are confidential data which contain information about individual statistical units.
The current legal framework enables access to anonymised microdata available at Eurostat only for scientific purposes.
Specific conditions on how to obtain microdata can be found under each section on the left.
The following microdata sets exist:
- ECHP (European Community Household Panel)
- LFS (Labour Force Survey)
- CIS (Community Innovation Survey)
- AES (Adult Education Survey)
- EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions)
- SES (Structure of Earnings Survey)
- FSS (Farm Structure Survey)
The above mentioned sets are being disseminated except for FSS, which will follow in due course. Additional information will be announced at this website when available.
