Abstract
EU-SILC will become one of the most important statistical data sources for the Federal Government’s future Poverty and Wealth Reports, for comparing Germany’s position with those of the other EU member states in the “open method of coordination”, and for the international scientific community and international organisations. Hence this sample needs intensive quality control to ensure data quality. Ex ante quality control must take the form of selecting suitable survey methods, internal control of consistency of the data collected from each household, transparent data editing, reliable imputation methods and compensation for drop-outs by reweighting. Ex post consistency checks are needed in the form of comparison with other similar household samples, with administrative statistics and with macro-economic aggregates of the national accounts.
Highlights
Introduction “LEBEN IN EUROPA” (Living in Europe) is the German name of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, EU-SILC for short, that have been compiled in all 27 EU member states and some neighbouring countries since 2005
The survey is held every year as a rotating panel, and it will develop into one of the most important household samples for the analysis of the incomes, living conditions and poverty ratios of the people living in Germany
The international scientific community will use this data, which is provided by Eurostat as a scientific use file and constantly updated, to make comparisons of every aspect of living conditions with the other EU member states and other highly developed countries
Summary
This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Conchita D’Ambrosio (Public Economics) Christoph Breuer (Sport Science, DIW Research Professor) Anita I. Lang (Psychology, DIW Research Professor) Jörg-Peter Schräpler (Survey Methodology) C. German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) DIW Berlin Mohrenstrasse 58 10117 Berlin, Germany
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