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Harmonization of Income Data in EU-SILC: Update of GESIS Paper 2015/18
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
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 meth-od and contains exa... view more
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 meth-od 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 database1. In this updated version, an extended appendix is included that explains how to generate and replicate these files in more detail.... view less
Keywords
EU; official statistics; data preparation; measurement; SPSS; household income; poverty; statistical analysis; international comparison; data; exclusion; living conditions; data capture
Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Free Keywords
EU-SILC; STATA
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
City
Köln
Page/Pages
21 p.
Series
GESIS Papers, 2020/05
ISSN
2364-3781
Status
Published Version; reviewed