For the collection of the common longer-term result indicators, there are two waves of reporting, and distinct samples with non-overlapping participants should be drawn.
Representative samples are randomly selected at the level of investment priority to reflect the socio-economic characteristics (variables) of the participants as captured by the common output indicators covering personal non-sensitive data: gender, employment status, age, educational attainment and household situation. Representative samples have to be established per investment priority, category of region (not for YEI), and gender.
The “grand total of participants” covers all supported participants, including those for whom the common output indicators covering personal non-sensitive data could not be collected or are incomplete.
In order to be included in the aggregates for reporting indicators and for drawing representative samples, records have to be complete for all non-sensitive personal data (gender, employment status, age, education level, and household situation) excluding homelessness and from rural areas. Incomplete records should be included only in the grand total of participants figure.
In order to decide which output and result indicators are relevant, the objective of each operation should be taken into account. If the objective of the operation is to help unemployed people start their own business, then the following common indicators are relevant:
Usually, beneficiaries initiate or initiate and implement an operation that supports a number of individuals or entities fulfilling certain criteria (target group).
Note that there is a difference between a “beneficiary” and an entity “benefitting from support”:
No. It is not necessary to keep the previously recorded result data for participants that re-join the same operation. Only data associated with the initial entry and final exit date are required. Note however, that the system should ensure that any reported indicators including data for a first result are updated accordingly and that the revised results are transmitted to the Commission through the SFC.
Indicators marked with two asterisks in Annex I of the ESF regulation are those for which information to be collected is considered as sensitive, according to Art. 8 of the 95/46/EC directive.These are the following common output indicators:
As well as the immediate and longer-term result indicators:
Both the immediate and longer-term result indicators on disadvantaged (“disadvantaged participants engaged in job searching, education/training, gaining a qualification, in employment, including self-employment, upon leaving”, and “disadvantaged participants in employment, including self-employment, six months after leaving”) should only include participants who have been recorded in at least one of the following common output indicators (note that people may cumulate several disadvantages:
For participants that at the start date (when joining an ESF operation) are neither unemployed nor inactive (i.e. they are in employment) the immediate result indicators “participants in education and training” and “participants gaining a qualification” can apply.
