Harmonization of Income Data in EU-SILC: Update of GESIS Paper 2015/18

Abstract

This report is intended to provide an overview of income measures employed in the EU-SILC and to inform on procedures which can be employed to harmonize these data both for comparisons over time and between countries. Each subsection provides a short overview over a topic or method and contains example code for Stata and SPSS which can be used to implement the described procedures. Alongside this report syntax files as well as a data files for both SPSS and Stata are delivered which include the code provided here as well auxiliary country level data drawn from the Eurostat database. In this updated version, an extended appendix is included that explains how to generate and replicate these files in more detail.