Abstract: The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a
rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers variables with a high
potential for comparative European labor market and social research.
Unfortunately, its current availability limits its potential research
applications. This research note describes these shortcomings of the current
data provision. Furthermore, we make two contributions for a better
exploitation of these data sets: First, we develop a method for combining
the different waves in order to increase the number of usable observations;
and second, we indicate how monthly data on income and hourly pay can be
derived.
Keywords: EU-SILC, sampling weights, income, Europe, data quality, panel data
