SILC — Survey on Income and Living Conditions
Central Statistics
Office (CSO).
2003
The primary focus of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC)
is the collection of information on the income and living conditions
of different types of households in Ireland, in order to derive indicators
on poverty, deprivation and social exclusion. It is a voluntary
(for selected respondents) survey of private households.
Individuals living in institutions or communal accommodation
and persons of no fixed abode are out of scope for this survey.
It is carried out under EU legislation (Council Regulation No 2019/1700)
and commenced in Ireland in June 2003.
Information is collected annually
in the first 6 months of the year. The sample population is all private households and their current members residing in the state at the time of data collection, excluding offshore island communities.
The (European Union – EU) Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
is an annual survey conducted by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to obtain information on the income and living conditions of different types of households.
The survey also collects information on poverty and social exclusion.
General public, researchers, Eurostat,
government departments (e.g. DEASP, Finance, DCEDIY)
The core outputs from the EU-SILC each year
will include: detailed income data on households and individuals; the number/proportion of persons at-risk-of-poverty; the number/proportion of persons living in ‘consistent poverty’; information on enforced deprivation.
Not available.
PPSNs are collected for processing purposes only and are not retained on final disseminated datasets.
SILC collects data on region of residence, occupation, sex, education. Possible analysis is dependent on sample size.
Information is collected annually in the first 6 months of the year.
A representative random sample of private households throughout the
country is approached to provide the required information. The survey
is voluntary from a respondent’s perspective. Data is required in both
cross-sectional (pertaining to a given time in a certain time period) and
longitudinal (pertaining to individual-level changes over time) dimensions.
Therefore certain households will be surveyed on an annual basis. Further details: https://www.cso.ie/en/methods/socialconditions/silc/
N/A.
4,200 records created on
average nationally.
Annual. The CSO will make anonymised files relating
to SILC data available free of charge to students and
researchers for non-commercial purposes through the Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA) which can be accessed at:
https://www.ucd.ie/issda/data/eusurveyofincomeandlivingconditionseu-silc/
On PxStat: https://data.cso.ie/product/silc
or via a research microdata file (RMF): https://www.cso.ie/en/aboutus/lgdp/csodatapolicies/dataforresearchers/
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