simPop (version 0.2.9)

eusilcS: 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(eusilcS)

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 4641 households and is used as sample data in some of the examples in package simPopulation. Note that it is included for illustrative purposes only. The sample weights do not reflect the true population sizes of Austria and its regions. The resulting population data is about 100 times smaller than the real population size to save computation time.

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 and netIncome are not included in the standardized format of EU-SILC data, but have been derived from other variables for convenience.

References

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

Examples

data(eusilcS)
summary(eusilcS)