eusilc: Synthetic EU-SILC survey data
In laeken: Estimation of Indicators on Social Exclusion and Poverty

eusilc

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Synthetic EU-SILC survey data

Description

This data set is synthetically generated from real Austrian EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) data.

Usage

data(eusilc)

Format

A data frame with 14827 observations on the following 28 variables.

db030: integer; the household ID.
hsize: integer; the number of persons in the household.
db040: factor; the federal state in which the household is located (levels Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Upper Austria, Vienna and Vorarlberg).
rb030: integer; the personal ID.
age: integer; the person's age.
rb090: factor; the person's gender (levels male and female).
pl030: factor; the person's economic status (levels 1 = working full time, 2 = working part time, 3 = unemployed, 4 = pupil, student, further training or unpaid work experience or in compulsory military or community service, 5 = in retirement or early retirement or has given up business, 6 = permanently disabled or/and unfit to work or other inactive person, 7 = fulfilling domestic tasks and care responsibilities).
pb220a: factor; the person's citizenship (levels AT, EU and Other).
py010n: numeric; employee cash or near cash income (net).
py050n: numeric; cash benefits or losses from self-employment (net).
py090n: numeric; unemployment benefits (net).
py100n: numeric; old-age benefits (net).
py110n: numeric; survivor's benefits (net).
py120n: numeric; sickness benefits (net).
py130n: numeric; disability benefits (net).
py140n: numeric; education-related allowances (net).
hy040n: numeric; income from rental of a property or land (net).
hy050n: numeric; family/children related allowances (net).
hy070n: numeric; housing allowances (net).
hy080n: numeric; regular inter-household cash transfer received (net).
hy090n: numeric; interest, dividends, profit from capital investments in unincorporated business (net).
hy110n: numeric; income received by people aged under 16 (net).
hy130n: numeric; regular inter-household cash transfer paid (net).
hy145n: numeric; repayments/receipts for tax adjustment (net).
eqSS: numeric; the equivalized household size according to the modified OECD scale.
eqIncome: numeric; a slightly simplified version of the equivalized household income.
db090: numeric; the household sample weights.
rb050: numeric; the personal sample weights.

Details

The data set consists of 6000 households and is used in the examples of package laeken. Note that this is a synthetic data set based on original EU-SILC survey data.

Only a few of the large number of variables in the original survey are included in this example data set. The variable names are rather cryptic codes, but these are the standardized names used by the statistical agencies. Furthermore, the variables hsize, age, eqSS and eqIncome are not included in the standardized format of EU-SILC data, but have been derived from other variables for convenience. Moreover, some very sparse income components were not included in the the generation of this synthetic data set. Thus the equivalized household income is computed from the available income components.

Source

This is a synthetic data set based on Austrian EU-SILC data from 2006. The original sample was provided by Statistics Austria.

References

A. Alfons and M. Templ (2013) Estimation of Social Exclusion Indicators from Complex Surveys: The R Package laeken. Journal of Statistical Software, 54(15), 1–25. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v054.i15")}

A. Alfons, M. Templ, P. Filzmoser (2011) Simulation of close-to-reality population data for household surveys with application to EU-SILC. Statistical Methods and Applications, vol 20 (3), 383-407.

Eurostat (2004) Description of target variables: Cross-sectional and longitudinal. EU-SILC 065/04, Eurostat.