Net-SILC

Net-SILC Partners

The "Network for the Analysis of EU-SILC (Net-SILC)" brings together expertise from European Statistical System (ESS) bodies and academics. It consists of 18 partners:

    A. ESS partners:
    • the Network coordinator: CEPS/INSTEAD, a Luxembourg-based research institute and a member of the ESS;
    • seven statistical institutes: the Czech Statistical Office, Statistics Finland, Statistics Austria, Statistics Norway, Statistics UK (ONS), Statistics Italy (ISTAT) and Statistics Estonia.

    B. Academic partners from the following universities and research centres:
    • University of Oxford and Nuffield College (UK);
    • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung ("WZB-Berlin", DE);
    • Institut Wallon de l'Evaluation, de la Prospective et de la Statistique ("IWEPS", BE);
    • European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research (AT);
    • London School of Economics (UK);
    • Institute for Social and Economic Research of the University of Essex ("ISER", UK);
    • University of Sienna (IT);
    • Kent State University (USA).

    C. Associated ESS members:
    • Bank of Italy (IT)
    • Statistics France (INSEE)

Net-SILC Main Objectives

The two main objectives of Net-SILC are:

  • to develop methodology for the analysis of the EU statistical data reference source for poverty and living conditions (EU-SILC), covering both cross-sectional and longitudinal dimensions;
  • to use EU-SILC data for providing in-depth comparative analysis of income and living conditions in the EU (with a particular focus on the extent of financial poverty, social exclusion and deprivation).

Funding

Net-SILC is a research project funded by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities.

Major Deliverables

The initial Net-SILC findings were presented at the international conference on ‘Comparative EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions’ (Warsaw, 25-26 March 2010), which was organised jointly by Eurostat and the Net-SILC network and hosted by the Central Statistical Office of Poland. For more information on the conference, see : http://www.stat.gov.pl/eusilc/. Since then, two major deliverables from Net-SILC have become available:

  • A book edited by A.B. Atkinson (Nuffield College and London School of Economics, UK) and Eric Marlier (CEPS/INSTEAD Research Institute, Luxembourg). This book was published by the EU Publications Office (OPOCE) on 13 December 2010 and can be downloaded free of charge from: Eurostat.
  • A series of methodological papers published in the Eurostat’s Methodologies and working papers collection, which are available (also free of charge) from: Eurostat.

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