European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2012
type: Dataset
provider: GESIS search
  type: Organization
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creator: Eurostat
publisher: Eurostat
language: English
keywords: Demographic Background
keywords: Labour and Employment
keywords: Education
keywords: Health
keywords: Housing
keywords: Income
keywords: Social Exclusion
keywords: Household Structure
keywords: Technical Items
keywords: Modules
keywords: Living arrangements and conditions of children in separated and blended families
keywords: Optional COVID-19 related variables
keywords: Over-indebtedness, consumption and wealth as well as labour
keywords: Intergenerational transmission of disadvantages, household composition and evolution of income
keywords: Health & children's health
keywords: Access to services
keywords: Wellbeing
keywords: Intergenerational transmission of disadvantages
keywords: Intra-household sharing of resources
keywords: Material deprivation
keywords: Over-indebtedness and financial exclusion
keywords: Housing conditions
keywords: Social participation
keywords: Intergenerational transmission of poverty
description: EU-SILC 2012 contains the 2012 Module on housing conditions. The 2012 module includes eighteen variables of which sixteen should be asked at household level and two at personal level. For variables asked at household level, the mode of data collection is personal interview with the household respondent. For variables asked at individual level, the mode of data collection is personal interview with all current household members aged 16 years old and over or, if applicable, with the household selected respondent. Owing to the characteristics of the information to be collected, only personal interviews (proxy interviews as an exception for persons temporarily away or in incapacity) or extracted information from registers are allowed.
temporal coverage: Reference period for core variables: constant, at selection, income reference period, usual week, last 4 weeks, last 12 months, since last year, working life, childcare reference period (Eurostat (2013): DESCRIPTION OF TARGET VARIABLES: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal. 2012 operation (Version May 2013), p. 74).The 2012 module variables relate to four types of reference periods: Usual: an ordinary winter/summer, in the area where the dwelling is located (for the variables “dwelling comfortably warm during winter time” and “dwelling comfortably cool during summer time”). Last five years (for the variables related to the “change of the dwelling”). It refers to the five years prior to the date of the interview. Next six months (for the variables related to “risk of changing the dwelling”). It refers to the six months succeeding to the date of the interview. Current (for all other variables). (Eurostat (2013): 2012 EU-SILC MODULE ON HOUSING CONDITIONS. Assessment of the implementation, pp. 3-4.)
variable measured: PropertyValue