EU-LFS and EU-SILC User Conference: Call for Papers

Users’ Conference 2013: Call for Papers

European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) and European Union Statistics on Income & Living Conditions (EU-SILC)

21 - 22 March 2013, Mannheim, Germany

Deadline for Submission: 31 October 2012

The 1st European User Conference for EU-LFS and EU-SILC, organized by the German Microdata Lab, GESIS, financially supported by Data without Boundaries, in cooperation with Eurostat, will provide researchers with the opportunity to present and discuss their work and share their experience.

Researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, geography, political science, public health, and sociology) who use either EU-LFS or EU-SILC microdata are encouraged to participate and to submit an abstract.

More information & application form: http://dwbproject.org/events/users_conf1.html

 

Consultation on EU-SILC

Eurostat is currently evaluating the usefulness of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), and examining the options for the future of the survey. They have commissioned a small team at ISER to write a report on one aspect of the EU-SILC, namely the design of the longitudinal component of the survey.

As part of this exercise, ISER have prepared a survey for the research community, asking researchers about their experiences with the EU-SILC data, and what they think about the different options for changing the design.

The survey can be found here https://essex.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eQC5D4XtnOmzE0t

Eurostat microdata now free

As of the 1st April 2011 Eurostat have decided to stop charging for their microdata resources. Anonymised versions of the EU Labour Force Survey, the Survey of Income and Living Conditions, the Community Innovation Statistics, the Structure of Earnings Survey and the Adult Education Survey are now available for free via approved research contracts. It appears that charges to access to detailed microdata via the Eurostat SAFE centre in Luxembourg have also been dropped, however I cannot confirm this at the moment.

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/microdata/introduction