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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. This instrument is anchored in the European Statistical System (ESS).
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The instrument known as European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is now the reference source for poverty indicators and is essential for monitoring related Europe 2020 targets adopted by the European Council in June 2010. In particular, the strategy sets Member States and the European Commission the goal of “Promoting social inclusion, in particular through the reduction of poverty, by aiming to lift at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty and exclusion.”
The Europe 2020 headline indicator “population at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion” combines three sub-indicators based on EU-SILC, namely,...
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Leulescu, A., Wolff, P., Mercy, JL. (2014). Living Conditions, EU-SILC Community Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_950
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