laeken (version 0.5.3)

eusilc: Synthetic EU-SILC survey data

Description

This data set is synthetically generated from real Austrian EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) data.

Usage

data(eusilc)

Format

A data frame with 14827 observations on the following 28 variables.

db030

integer; the household ID.

hsize

integer; the number of persons in the household.

db040

factor; the federal state in which the household is located (levels Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Upper Austria, Vienna and Vorarlberg).

rb030

integer; the personal ID.

age

integer; the person's age.

rb090

factor; the person's gender (levels male and female).

pl030

factor; the person's economic status (levels 1 = working full time, 2 = working part time, 3 = unemployed, 4 = pupil, student, further training or unpaid work experience or in compulsory military or community service, 5 = in retirement or early retirement or has given up business, 6 = permanently disabled or/and unfit to work or other inactive person, 7 = fulfilling domestic tasks and care responsibilities).

pb220a

factor; the person's citizenship (levels AT, EU and Other).

py010n

numeric; employee cash or near cash income (net).

py050n

numeric; cash benefits or losses from self-employment (net).

py090n

numeric; unemployment benefits (net).

py100n

numeric; old-age benefits (net).

py110n

numeric; survivor's benefits (net).

py120n

numeric; sickness benefits (net).

py130n

numeric; disability benefits (net).

py140n

numeric; education-related allowances (net).

hy040n

numeric; income from rental of a property or land (net).

hy050n

numeric; family/children related allowances (net).

hy070n

numeric; housing allowances (net).

hy080n

numeric; regular inter-household cash transfer received (net).

hy090n

numeric; interest, dividends, profit from capital investments in unincorporated business (net).

hy110n

numeric; income received by people aged under 16 (net).

hy130n

numeric; regular inter-household cash transfer paid (net).

hy145n

numeric; repayments/receipts for tax adjustment (net).

eqSS

numeric; the equivalized household size according to the modified OECD scale.

eqIncome

numeric; a slightly simplified version of the equivalized household income.

db090

numeric; the household sample weights.

rb050

numeric; the personal sample weights.

Details

The data set consists of 6000 households and is used in the examples of package laeken. Note that this is a synthetic data set based on original EU-SILC survey data.

Only a few of the large number of variables in the original survey are included in this example data set. The variable names are rather cryptic codes, but these are the standardized names used by the statistical agencies. Furthermore, the variables hsize, age, eqSS and eqIncome are not included in the standardized format of EU-SILC data, but have been derived from other variables for convenience. Moreover, some very sparse income components were not included in the the generation of this synthetic data set. Thus the equivalized household income is computed from the available income components.

References

A. Alfons and M. Templ (2013) Estimation of Social Exclusion Indicators from Complex Surveys: The R Package laeken. Journal of Statistical Software, 54(15), 1--25. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v054.i15")

A. Alfons, M. Templ, P. Filzmoser (2011) Simulation of close-to-reality population data for household surveys with application to EU-SILC. Statistical Methods and Applications, vol 20 (3), 383-407.

Eurostat (2004) Description of target variables: Cross-sectional and longitudinal. EU-SILC 065/04, Eurostat.

Examples

data(eusilc)
summary(eusilc)