TY - JOUR
T1 - Data Resource Profile
T2 - The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
AU - Arora, Vishal S.
AU - Karanikolos, Marina
AU - Clair, Amy
AU - Reeves, Aaron
AU - Stuckler, David
AU - McKee, Martin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2015; all rights reserved. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association.
PY - 2015/5/27
Y1 - 2015/5/27
N2 - Social and economic policies are inextricably linked with population health outcomes in Europe, yet few datasets are able to fully explore and compare this relationship across European countries. The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey aims to address this gap using microdata on income, living conditions and health. EU-SILC contains both cross-sectional and longitudinal elements, with nationally representative samples of individuals 16 years and older in 28 European Union member states as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. Data collection began in 2003 in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Luxembourg and Austria, with subsequent expansion across Europe. By 2011, all 28 EU member states, plus three others, were included in the dataset. Although EU-SILC is administered by Eurostat, the data are output- harmonized so that countries are required to collect specified data items but are free to determine sampling strategies for data collection purposes. EU-SILC covers approximately 500 000 European residents for its cross-sectional survey annually. Whereas aggregated data from EU-SILC are publicly available [http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/income-and-living-conditions/data/main-tables], microdata are only available to research organizations subject to approval by Eurostat. Please refer to [http://epp.eurostat.ec. europa.eu/portal/page/portal/microdata/eu_silc] for further information regarding microdata access.
AB - Social and economic policies are inextricably linked with population health outcomes in Europe, yet few datasets are able to fully explore and compare this relationship across European countries. The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey aims to address this gap using microdata on income, living conditions and health. EU-SILC contains both cross-sectional and longitudinal elements, with nationally representative samples of individuals 16 years and older in 28 European Union member states as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. Data collection began in 2003 in Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Luxembourg and Austria, with subsequent expansion across Europe. By 2011, all 28 EU member states, plus three others, were included in the dataset. Although EU-SILC is administered by Eurostat, the data are output- harmonized so that countries are required to collect specified data items but are free to determine sampling strategies for data collection purposes. EU-SILC covers approximately 500 000 European residents for its cross-sectional survey annually. Whereas aggregated data from EU-SILC are publicly available [http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/income-and-living-conditions/data/main-tables], microdata are only available to research organizations subject to approval by Eurostat. Please refer to [http://epp.eurostat.ec. europa.eu/portal/page/portal/microdata/eu_silc] for further information regarding microdata access.
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U2 - 10.1093/ije/dyv069
DO - 10.1093/ije/dyv069
M3 - Article
C2 - 25948659
AN - SCOPUS:84936761081
SN - 0300-5771
VL - 44
SP - 451
EP - 461
JO - International Journal of Epidemiology
JF - International Journal of Epidemiology
IS - 2
M1 - dyv069
ER -