laeken (version 0.4.3)

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)

source

This is a synthetic data set based on Austrian EU-SILC data from 2006. The original sample was provided by Statistics Austria.

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

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

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.

Examples

data(eusilc)
summary(eusilc)