AAI-II - UNECE

AAI- I I

Eighth meeting of the Working Group on ageing, November 2015, Geneva

Implementation of the second

phase of the project

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Active Ageing Index

• Background

• Research

• Stakeholder outreach and Communication

• Further steps

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Background

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AAI Project

• managed jointly by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Commission’s DG for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL)

• main developer of AAI in 2012 — the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna

• research consultant: Professor Asghar Zaidi + University of Southampton, United Kingdom

• advised by the Expert Group on the Active Ageing Index

January 2012 to February 2013

October 2013 to December 2015

First Phase Second Phase

April 2016

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Research

Outreach to stakeholders

Communication

AAI-II: Key directions

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Research

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Research 1 Computing AAI for Croatia

2 Computing AAI for the latest year available (2014 AAI)

3 Computing the AAI for retrospective years

4 Computing AAI for four selected non-EU countries

5 Carrying out two pilot studies of the AAI in selected UNECE non-EU countries (Serbia and Turkey)

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From 2010 AAI to 2014 AAI

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• Iceland – complete data set for three data points

• Canada – five indicators missing: 3.1: Physical exercise, 3.2: Access to health and dental care, 3.6: Material deprivation, 3.8: Lifelong learning and 4.3: Mental well-being

• Norway and Switzerland – missing six indicators based on EQLS

• Possibility to use Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for Switzerland

• Main challenge: mental well-being indicator, currently looking at the special well-being module of SILC 2013

Four non-EU countries

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• establishing if AAI can be computed for a given non-EU country:

• analyzing data availability

• identifying data gaps

• selecting proxies if needed

• eventual computation of AAI

Pilot study aims at

Countries under focus:

• First phase - Georgia

• Second phase - Serbia and Turkey

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• desk study, 2014-2015

• field visit to the country:

• Turkey: 16-18 September 2015

• hosted by Ministry of Family and Social policy

• attended by policymakers, NSO, NGOs, researchers

• computation of AAI, if possible

Three steps:

…in cooperation with National focal points on ageing and National Statistical Offices

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• Timeframe: December 2015 – April 2016

• Objectives:

• analyzing data availability

• calculate AAI indicators and AAI as close as possible to the national methodology

based on the results to develop guidelines for identifying suitable proxies

Pilot study at municipal level in Germany

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Outreach to stakeholders and communication

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Outreach to stakeholders 1 Organizing a special Researchers’ Seminar

2 Organizing a national seminar with country representatives to examine in detail their AAI results with the aim of advocating the use of AAI among policymakers

3 Expert Group on AAI

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“Building an evidence base for active ageing policies: Active Ageing Index and its potential”, 16–17 April, Brussels

• Aim: raise visibility of AAI, promote its use for policymaking and get new insights from various types of stakeholders

• Call for papers launched in June 2014

• Over 60 abstracts Independent Evaluation board 35 papers invited as presentations and posters

• 150 participants from 35 countries

International Seminar (1)

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Topics

• use of AAI for policymaking

• methodology matters

• subnational adaptation of AAI

• Spain, Italy, Finland…

• AAI application outside of the European Union

• Russian Federation: three different universities

• China, India and six Latin American countries


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After the seminar

• Wide media coverage

• Materials available online

• Papers to be published as a book


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21 May, Vilnius

• Goal: to discuss country-specific results and how AAI can be used in Lithuanian context

• Hosted by the Lithuanian Ministry of Social Security and Labour

• 40 experts from ministries, representatives of regional social service agencies, the research community and the universities of the Third Age of Lithuania, and others

National Seminar in Lithuania

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Communication

1 Presenting the AAI results: at least four presentations based on the AAI results

2 Preparing a short analytical paper on trends in active ageing in Europe

3 Developing and maintaining a website on the AAI

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• Conference on active ageing, October 2015, Riga

• Kobe WHO centre, October 2015

• Horizons for Comparative and Integrative Research on Ageing and Health, October, 2015, Stockholm

• 2015 UNFPA Executive Training Course on Population, Ageing and Development, October, 2015, in Malta

• International Healthy Ageing Congress, September, 2015, Warsaw

Most recent presentations by AAI team

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AAI Wiki

http://www1.unece.org/stat/platform/display/AAI/Active+Ageing+Index+Home

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Further steps

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AAI-III: Main activities • Extend geographical coverage

• Calculation for the most recent available data (2016 AAI, 2018 AAI)

• Further fine-tuning of methodology

• Carrying out more specific analysis

• Pilot studies at national and subnational level, including development of guidelines

• National and subregional seminars

• International seminar

• Visualisation tool

• …and others

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