[GB] Survey on living conditions (SLC)

Full name of the series in original language

Survey on living conditions (SLC)

Abstract

The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is an instrument aimed at collecting timely and comparable cross-sectional and longitudinal multidimensional microdata on income, poverty and social exclusion. It is the European Union (EU) reference source for comparative statistics on income distribution and social exclusion at European level, particularly in the context of the 'Programme of Community action to encourage cooperation between Member States to combat social exclusion' and for producing structural indicators on social cohesion for the annual spring report to the European Council.

The EU-SILC instrument aims to provide 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, and longitudinal data pertaining to individual-level changes over time, observed periodically over, typically, a four years period. Further information may be found on the EU EU-SILC webpage.

The Great Britain component of the EU-SILC dataset is collected by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) as part of the General Lifestyle Survey (GLF). The Northern Ireland component is collected by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) as part of the Living Conditions Survey (LCS). The EU-SILC dataset has been produced in accordance with EU regulations under guidance from Eurostat. In addition, every year a European Commission regulation describing the list of secondary target variables (annual modules) is published (see below for details).

Main Topics:
The data contains interview survey data for adults aged 16 years and over, plus basic demographic information for children in the register files. These variables cover topics such as:

• basic personal and household data;
• child care;
• dwelling type, tenure status and housing conditions;
• housing costs and amenities;
• housing and non-housing related arrears;
• non-monetary household deprivation indicators;
• physical and social environment;
• household and personal level income;
• education;
• health and access to healthcare;
• labour information;

Additionally, each year there is an annual module. The modules for 2008 and 2009 were:

• 2008: over-indebtedness and financial exclusion;
• 2009: material deprivation.

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Time method

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Time period

2006 => 2011

Types of available microdata

Consistency type

Access mode

Update date

15/09/2021