[FR] French Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC)

Full name of the series in original language

Statistiques sur les ressources et les conditions de vie

Abstract

The Statistical survey on income and living conditions (SILC scheme) represents the French contribution to European union-Statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC). From 2004 on, it is a continuation of the former European Community Households Panel (ECHP) that came to an end in 2001. This scheme provides a general framework covering a number of topics related to household income (as of the previous year preceding the survey), financial situation and living conditions. It serves as a reference for comparing income distribution between European union member states and for European union actions against exclusion. Every year a Panel survey achieves data collection. This survey has been awarded the public interest and statistical quality label (CNIS 29/10/2003). It is considered as mandatory. The questionnaire consists of the core questionnaire from the household surveys, plus a specific household questionnaire and an individual questionnaire. The household questionnaire covers the following topics: household composition, housing conditions (main residence), living conditions, global income over the reference period. The individual questionnaire covers biography and cultural resources, employment, occupation, detailed individual income over the reference period and health. This scheme allows for the adjunction of specific modules every year.

Since 2008, France introduced supplementary questions on social indicators : some of them were present in the former survey on living conditions (EPCV).

Three sets of supplementary questions have been defined, each being applied every three years:

- the first one is on health, associative activities, professional relationships and social participation;
- the second on sports and recreation;
- he third on social mobility and contacts with close personal relations.

Since 2008, a statistical matching is made with the tax sources for the year, in particular with. the tax returns for year N. The amounts of social benefits actually received by the households over the reference year N are collected directly from the three main Benefit funds in France: the national family allowances fund (CNAF), the national old-age insurance fund (CNAV) and the central agricultural social insurance fund (CCMSA).

A self-administered questionnaire on well-being has been introduced since 2010 in the French part of the EU-SILC. Every year, a sub-sample (one-ninths) is concerned.

Geographic coverage

France

Time method

Longitudinal: Panel

Time period

2004 => 2009

Types of available microdata

Consistency type

Access mode

Update date

15/09/2021