Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC)

In 2009, Croatia joined other European countries carrying out Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey, firstly with a test implementation. From 2010, the Survey on Income and Living Conditions is a basis for the calculation of the poverty indicators and social inclusion for the Republic of Croatia. The implementation of the Survey is in line with EU regulations and Eurostat`s methodology for the EU-SILC Survey. At the EU level, SILC is an obligatory survey and makes a reference data source for the monitoring of the income, poverty and social inclusion statistics. SILC is carried out in all Member States on the regular annual basis. It is an annual survey that is carried out on the random sample of private households. According to the methodology, institutional households (such as homes, prisons, hospitals for the permanent accommodation of patients etc.) are not covered. The survey collects data on gross and net income of households and all household members, data on education status of persons, activity status and employment, health care and childcare, data on financial and material status of households and data on other aspects of living standards of households. The SILC survey is a panel sample survey of randomly chosen private households. The panel sample implies that selected households remain in the sample for four consecutive years and that they are repeatedly interviewed.