The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) collects timely and comparable multidimensional microdata on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions.

The EU-SILC collection is a key instrument for providing the information required by the European Semester( [1] ) and the European Pillar of Social Rights . It is also the main source of data for microsimulation purposes and for producing flash estimates of income distribution and poverty rates.

The indicator of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) remains crucial for monitoring European social policies, especially for monitoring the EU 2030 target on poverty and social exclusion . For more information, please consult EU social indicators .

The EU-SILC instrument provides two types of data:

EU-SILC collects:

The variables collected are grouped by topic and detailed topic, and transmitted to Eurostat in four main files (D-File, H-File, R-File and P-file).

The ‘ Income and Living Conditions ’ domain covers the following topics: persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, income inequality, income distribution and monetary poverty, living conditions and material deprivation. It also covers EU-SILC ad hoc modules, which are organised into collections of indicators on specific topics.