Income and Living Conditions Survey (EU-SILC) - longitudinal data

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 microdata on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions in the European Union.

This instrument is anchored in the European Statistical System (ESS).

The EU-SILC project is based on a framework regulation (Regulation Ec n° 1177/2003) adopted by the Council and European Parliament.

The EU-SILC instrument provides 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.
• longitudinal data pertaining to a four-year period.