Charles M. Cooper Library | Databases

• EU-SILC: The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is an instrument aiming at collecting timely and comparable cross-sectional and longitudinal multidimensional microdata on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions.
• SES: The Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) is conducted in EU Member States as well as EU candidate countries and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries. The survey is a large sample survey of enterprises on the relationships between the level of pay and individual characteristics of employees (sex, age, occupation, length of service, highest educational level attained, etc.) and those of their employer (economic activity, size and location of the enterprise).
• EU-LFS: EU-LFS is a large household sample survey providing quarterly results on labour participation of people aged 15 and over as well as on people outside the labour force. All definitions apply to persons aged 15 years and over living in private households. Those doing military or community service are not included in the survey, as is also the case for those in institutions/collective households.
• ECHP: The European Community Household Panel (ECHP) is a panel survey consisting of interviews held with a sample of households and individuals year after year. The interviews cover a wide range of topics on living conditions. They include detailed information on household income, the financial situation in the wider sense, working life, the housing situation, social relations, health and biographical information.

These databases is only accessible within the UNU-MERIT network; password and (EUROSTAT) permission is necessary to access and use. Please ask staff for further access details. Due to high privacy and data protection issues this micro-data is only available for research staff and PhD students under strict conditions.