SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) is a representative survey of households in Switzerland. This instrument aims at studying poverty, social exclusion and living conditions on the basis of indicators that can be compared at the European level.
It is collecting on an annual basis timely and comparable multidimensional micro-data on income, material deprivation, housing condition, labour, education, health and subjective well-being. Every year, both cross-sectional data (pertaining to a given time or a certain time period) and longitudinal data (pertaining to individual-level changes over time, observed periodically over a four year period) are collected.
Yearly modules:
2007: Housing conditions
2008: Over-indebtedness and financial exclusion
2009: Material deprivation
2010: Intra-household sharing of resources
2011: Intergenerational transmission of disadvantages
2012: Housing conditions
Switzerland
- At the time being, 2008 to 2010 data are available. 2007 and 2011 data will be available during march 2013.
- SILC datasets from Eurostat will contain swiss data in spring 2013.
Types of available microdata
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