EU-SILC

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EU-SILC , English European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions , German  European community statistics on income and living conditions , is a survey on income and living conditions in Europe .

The aim is to provide multidimensional, multilevel and longitudinal microdata on the topics that are comparable in terms of time and internationally

to collect. Both monetary and non-monetary aspects are surveyed according to objective and subjective criteria.

The aim of EU-SILC is to monitor poverty and social exclusion, and in this context it serves to monitor the Europe 2020 strategy . The survey was started in 2003 in 6 member states and Norway and is  embedded in the European Statistical System (ESS). All EU members as well as Switzerland , Norway , Iceland , Turkey , Serbia and Macedonia are now taking part.

The previous study of EU-SILC was called Household Panel of the European Community (Engl. European Community Household Panel ) and was collected in eight waves between 1994 and 2001.

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Germany

The name of the German survey within the framework of the Europe-wide community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) is LEBEN IN EUROPA. The survey has been carried out annually since 2005. Every year around 14,000 households with 28,000 people are surveyed in Germany. The field work and the collection of data are carried out decentrally in the state statistical offices . The data for European purposes and the publication of the federal results are then processed in the Federal Statistical Office . With LEBEN IN EUROPA, each household is surveyed for a maximum of four consecutive years ( rotation panel ). This means that a quarter of the sample is replaced by new households every year. The households take part in LIFE IN EUROPE voluntarily.

The quality of the German data and the indicators determined was viewed rather skeptically in the early years, but the results are now considered to be quite reliable. Problems persist with the inclusion of societal marginalized groups in the survey.

The terms “at risk of poverty” and “at risk of poverty threshold” used in the mass media often refer to the results of this survey.

The survey has been integrated into the microcensus as a sub-sample since 2020 and is referred to as the income and living conditions part of the survey . Sub-sample means that only some of the households selected for the microcensus receive the questions of the EU-wide EU-SILC survey. The sub-sample comprises approx. 12% of the microcensus sample and is therefore larger than before in the LEBEN In EUROPA survey. This enables more detailed evaluations of the data. Another change is that there is an obligation to provide information for most of the questions. The obligation to provide information enables a sufficiently high participation rate for all social groups in the population, which cannot be achieved with a voluntary survey. There is usually a systematic bias in the sample: The participation rates are very low for those social groups with an above-average risk of poverty risk as well as for groups with a particularly high income. If not all people have to answer, then not all population groups would be represented in sufficient numbers in the sample. This could result in distortion of the results and incorrect conclusions.

Austria

The Statistics Austria collects data for SILC. The legal basis is the Income and Living Conditions Statistics  Ordinance (ELStV). The sample includes around 6,000 households.

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  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Destatis): Quality Report Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions - Living in Europe 2018. February 28, 2020, accessed on July 9, 2020 .
  2. ^ Hauser, Richard. (2007). Problems of the German contribution to EU-SILC from the perspective of science: a comparison of EU-SILC, microcensus and SOEP. SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, 69/2007. Berlin. Retrieved April 17, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Sebastian Czajka / Luca Rebeggiani: The permanent sample of households ready to be interviewed as a basis for selection for EU-SILC. In: Wirtschaft und Statistik, 2014, edition 10. Accessed on July 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Destatis): Results on the poverty threshold and risk of poverty (monetary poverty) in Germany. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  5. ↑ Janina Hundenborn, Jörg Enderer: The new regulation of the microcensus from 2020. In: Economy and Statistics, 2019, edition 6. Accessed on July 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Justification for the obligation to provide information for EU-SILC questions in the microcensus from 2020, draft of a law to reorganize the microcensus and to amend other statistical laws, printed matter 18/9418. P. 23f, accessed on July 9, 2020.
  7. ^ Ordinance on the statistics of income and living conditions ( Income and Living Conditions Statistics Ordinance - ELStV) , StF. BGBl. II No. 277/2010.