Overview
The EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) aim to collect timely and comparable cross-sectional and longitudinal data on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions.
The EU-SILC project was launched in 2003 between 6 Member States (Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg and Austria) and Norway. The legal basis entered into force in 2004 and now covers all EU countries plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland.
EU-SILC provides two types of data:
- Cross-sectional data over a given time or a certain time period with variables on income, poverty, social exclusion and other living conditions
- Longitudinal data on individual-level changes over time, observed periodically over a 4-year period.
Information on social exclusion and housing conditions is collected mainly at household level, while labour, education and health information is obtained from individuals aged 16 and over. Income variables at detailed component level are also mainly collected from individuals.
In Austria, approximately 6,000 households are surveyed every year.
Demographics
Dataset
The data of the Austrian EU-SILC survey can be requested from Statistics Austria. The anonymised datasets contain the non-monetary questionnaire variables and the aggregated and imputed income components according to the EUROSTAT target variable logic (EUROSTAT). The data are made available free of charge for scientific purposes. Compliance with the terms of use by the project staff is to be ensured by the respective project management.
Aggregated data are publicly available at Statistics Austria.
Contact
STATISTIK AUSTRIA, Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich, Guglgasse 13, 1110 Vienna, AUSTRIA