European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions
The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is an instrument aimed at collecting timely and comparable cross-sectional and longitudinal multidimensional microdata on income, poverty and social exclusion. It is the European Union (EU) reference source for comparative statistics on income distribution and social exclusion at European level, particularly in the context of the 'Programme of Community action to encourage cooperation between Member States to combat social exclusion' and for producing structural indicators on social cohesion for the annual spring report to the European Council.
The EU-SILC instrument aims to provide two types of data: cross-sectional data pertaining to a given time or a certain time period with variables on income, poverty, social exclusion and other living conditions, and longitudinal data pertaining to individual-level changes over time, observed periodically over, typically, a four years period. Further information may be found on the EU EU-SILC web page.
Users should note that only the cross-sectional data are currently available from ESDS and these data only cover the UK. It is currently anticipated that four datasets will be deposited each year. The Great Britain component of the EU-SILC dataset is collected by the Office for National Statistics as part of the General Lifestyle Survey (GLF) (held at ESDS under Special Licence access conditions). The Northern Ireland component is collected by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) as part of the Living Conditions Survey (LCS) (not currently held at ESDS). The EU-SILC dataset has been produced in accordance with EU regulations under guidance from Eurostat. In addition, every year a European Commission regulation describing the list of secondary target variables (annual modules) is published (see the Main Topics section of the ESDS website for details).
Changes to the collection of EU-SILC data
The EU-SILC data will soon be be collected from the Family Resources Survey instead of the GLF. A document outlining the changes is available in PDF format.
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