Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC)

SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) is a representative survey of households in Belgium. 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 are collected. 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.
Besides the main themes of income and living conditions, the survey also addresses numerous questions relating to health, education and training, child care, housing conditions, household composition and social relations.

Base module: Demographic data, Income (at household level and at personal level), Social exclusion (arrears, material deprivation, physical and social environment), Housing (dwelling type, housing conditions, housing costs), Education, Labour Health (health status, access to health care), Values and satisfaction, Social network, Childcare.

Yearly modules: Inter-generational transmission of poverty (2005), Social participation (2006), Housing conditions (2007), Over-indebtedness and financial exclusion (2008), Material deprivation (2009), Intra-household sharing of resources (2010), Intergenerational transmission of disadvantages (2011).