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European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2020

EU-SILC 2020 contains the 2020module on over-indebtedness, consumption and wealth as well as labour.

Geographical Coverage

"The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is an instrument aiming at collecting timely and comparable cross-sectional and longitudinal multidimensional micro-data on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions. This instrument is anchored in the European Statistical System (ESS).
The EU-SILC project was launched in 2003 on the basis of a "gentlemen's agreement" in six Member States (Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg and Austria) and Norway.
The start of the EU-SILC instrument was in 2004 for the EU-15 (except Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom) and Estonia, Norway and Iceland.
A derogation was provided in the cases of Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and nine of the then ten new Member States (all except Estonia) permitting them to begin in 2005 under the condition that they supply comparable data for the year 2004 for the common EU indicators that have been adopted by the Council in the context of the open method of co-ordination.
Bulgaria and Turkey started the full implementation of the EU-SILC instrument in 2006 while Romania and Switzerland began to implement it in 2007.
North Macedonia started in 2010, Croatia in 2011, Montenegro and Serbia in 2013, Albania in 2017 while Kosovo in 2018."

(Eurostat: METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES AND DESCRIPTION OF EU-SILC TARGET VARIABLES. 2020 operation (Version April 2020), p. 14).

Datasets availability table and release calendar (Eurostat)

Time Period Covered

Reference period for core variables: current, constant, at selection, income reference period, usual week, last 4 weeks, last 12 months, since last year, working life, childcare reference period.

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Country Specific Information: EU-SILC 2020

AT - Austria

Producer

Statistics Austria

Universe

"The reference population of EU-SILC are all private households and their current members residing in the territory of Austria at the time of data collection. Persons living in collective households and in institutions are generally excluded from the target population. There is no difference to the standard EU-SILC concept." (Eurostat (2020). National Reference Metadata in ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRSSI), AT, p. 5.)

Source Of Sampling Frame

Central registration register ZMR (Zentrales Melderegister), a constantly updated population register based on the registration of the main residence.

Sampling Design

Probability

  • systematic
  • stratified
  • one stage

Primary Sampling Units

Dwellings

Secondary Sampling Units

Not used

Stratification Criteria

"The first wave sample of EU-SILC 2020 is a one-stage stratified probability sample. The sample of the first wave was stratified according to 18 strata that where comprised of the 9 Austrian provinces (NUTS 2 units) subdivided into 2 groups that were defined by an estimation of the main indicator "at risk of poverty or social exclusion" (AROPE)." (Eurostat (2020). National Reference Metadata in ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRSSI), AT, p. 2.)

Sampling Method

"The first wave sampling process was carried out according to a stratified one-stage probabilty sample with systematic sample selection without replacement and disproportional allociation. [...] The number of selected households was determined as approximately 0.1% of all eligible addresses. The starting point in the development of the first wave sample was a proportional allocation by province. [...] For provinces with comparatively low response rates an oversample was applied and for provinces with comparatively high response rates an undersample was carried out. So the resulting sample selection scheme facilitated a disproportional allocation in order to compensate for different response rates in different provinces." (Eurostat (2020). National Reference Metadata in ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRSSI), AT, p. 2.)

Number Of Rotational Groups

4

Start Date

03-2020

End Date

07-2020

Interview Mode

  • 57.9 % CAPI
  • 42.1 % CATI

Percentage Of Proxy Interviews

9 %

Weighting: Method

see Eurostat (2020). National Reference Metadata in ESS Standard for Quality Reports Structure (ESQRSSI), AT. Annex 5 - Cross-sectional and longitudinal weighting procedure of EU-SILC 2020.