Conferences - Civil servants remuneration
Eurostat Conference on Remuneration Statistics, 9-10 December 2019 
| Aim and context | Registration and logistics |
| Abstracts | Papers |
| Presentations | Satisfaction survey |
Aim
Eurostat has been actively involved for many years in providing high quality remuneration statistics for administrative purposes, notably specific indicators of the evolution of national civil servant salaries, indices to measure the temporal movement of consumer prices, correction coefficients to adjust for differences in consumer price levels between duty stations around the world, and benchmarking of salary levels between international organisations.
Against this background, Eurostat launched the first Conference on Remuneration Statistics, held in the European Convention Center in Kirchberg-Luxembourg. It brought together high-level experts from the statistical community and important stakeholders: EU legislators, EU internal users, data partners, reference users, academics, recruitment consultants and thus permitted exchanges between various audiences with diverse degrees of awareness and know-how about remuneration statistics.
The conference addressed a broad range of issues relating to remuneration statistics for policy implementation and development in international organisations. It focused on remuneration statistics for international organisations and it represented an authoritative occasion for scientific analysis, training and sharing; a moment of efficient data explanation and comprehension; and it was part of a democratic process serving citizens.
Structure: A two day conference with eight sessions was planned, including an introductory session with keynote address, and a final session. Each of the six technical sessions was opened by an introduction of the key issues that speakers explored during their presentations, followed by clarification questions and an interactive debate. The final session summarised conclusions from the individual sessions.
Detailed conference programme
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Pre-conference “save the date” flyer
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Registration and logistics
This event occurred in the past. Registration is closed. The document is retained for reference. It describes the situation at the date of the conference, not the current situation. In particular, prices and timetables may have changed.
Abstracts
The deadline for submission of abstracts was 22 November 2019. Guidelines were prepared to assist preparation of abstracts. Authors whose abstracts were selected for publication/presentation were contacted directly. The selected abstracts were subsequently elaborated as conference papers and/or conference presentations.
Guideline for preparation of abstracts
Pre-conference topics summary
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Abstracts selected for publication/presentation:
Ian DENNIS: 100 years of theory
Ian DENNIS: What is equi-characteristicity and why is it important for spatial cost-of-living comparisons?
Ian DENNIS: Why Eurostat correction coefficients are considered to represent a quality “gold standard” in international cost-of-living comparisons – a preliminary quality assessment using 2019 framework
Ibrahim YANSANEH: The benefits of international collaboration
Ibrahim YANSANEH: The UN-ICSC’s Post Adjustment Index
Dirk-Jan HOOGERDIJK: The role of NSIs in remuneration statistics
Nathalie KASTELYN: Cost of living statistics needed by European Southern Observatory
Aurélien POISSONNIER: Transparency reporting obligation for public sector employees with highest remunerations
Ian DENNIS: Examples of recent research and test calculations
Ian DENNIS: Proactive transparency and innovative indices
Stamatis KALOGIROU: Transforming remuneration statistics to accessible insights via visual storytelling
Ian DENNIS: Job matching and salary definitions for 2019 comparison exercise
Ian DENNIS: Design principles for family budget survey questionnaire
Anna LOOF: Expanding population samples and encouraging response rates in family budget surveys amongst staff
Ian DENNIS: Estate agency rent surveys as a basis for housing comparisons
Ian DENNIS: Eurostat school fees survey as a basis for education comparisons
Anna DIAGOUMA: Efficiency and effectiveness in setting short-term allowances
Aldo CAMPO: Pension Contribution Rate: three different frameworks for setting the actuarial assumptions
Papers
Ian DENNIS: 100 years of theory
Ian DENNIS: What is equi-characteristicity and why is it important for spatial cost-of-living comparisons?
Ian DENNIS: Why Eurostat correction coefficients are considered to represent a “gold standard” in international cost-of-living comparisons
Ian DENNIS: Proactive transparency and innovative indices
Ian DENNIS & Paul A. DE HEK: Benchmarking: the importance of job matching
Ian DENNIS: Design principles for family budget survey questionnaire
Ian DENNIS: Estate Agency Rent Surveys as a basis for housing comparisons
Ian DENNIS: Eurostat school fees survey as a basis for education comparisons
Aldo CAMPO: Pension Contribution Rate: three different frameworks for setting the actuarial assumptions
Presentations
SESSION 1: POLICY MAKER’S VIEW ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE NEED FOR REMUNERATION STATISTICS
- Introductory Address - ESTAT Director General.pdf
- Keynote Speech - ICSC Chairman.pdf
- CRS2019 1.0 welcome agenda.ppsx
SESSION 2: GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: OPPORTUNITIES, FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR DATA
- CRS2019 2.0 European Commission -ES.ppsx
- CRS2019 2.1 NSI and Remuneration Statistics -DJVH.ppsx
- CRS2019 2.3 COL at ESO -NK.ppsx
SESSION 3: BEST PRACTICES IN CALCULATING COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS (“CORRECTION COEFFICIENTS”)
- CRS2019 3.1 CC quality gold standard -ID.ppsx
- CRS2019 3.2 100 years of theory -ID.ppsx
- CRS2019 3.3 Equi-characteristicity -ID.ppsx
- CRS2019 3.4 Examples of recent research -ID.ppsx
- CRS2019 3.5 Benefits of International Collaboration -IY.ppsx
- CRS2019 3.6 PAI optimal trade-off stat and comp goals -IY.ppsx
SESSION 4: INNOVATIVE DISSEMINATION TECHNIQUES
- CRS2019 4.1 Proactive transparency and innovative indices -ID.ppsx
- CRS2019 4.2 Business Intelligence Visualisation -SK.ppsx
SESSION 5: BEST PRACTICES IN SALARY BENCHMARKING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SECTOR
SESSION 6: BEST PRACTICES IN ORGANISING FAMILY BUDGET SURVEYS AMONGST STAFF
- CRS2019 6.1 FBS design principles -ID.ppsx
- CRS2019 6.2 Expanding population samples and encouraging response rates -AL.ppsx
SESSION 7: BEST PRACTICES REGARDING OTHER COMPONENTS OF TOTAL REMUNERATION PACKAGE
- CRS2019 7.1 Mission expenses -AD.ppsx
- CRS2019 7.2 Estate Agency Rent Surveys -ID.ppsx
- CRS2019 7.3 Education -ID.ppsx
- CRS2019 7.4 PseoPcr_ActuarAssump -AC.ppsx
SESSION 8: CONCLUSIONS FROM TWO DAYS OF DEBATE
Satisfaction survey
At the end of the conference, participants were invited to submit anonymous feedback about their experience. The response was overwhelmingly positive.