This paper concentrates on official statistics on household income, poverty, and wealth. It characterizes the main research questions in this field, and it presents an overview of the available statistics and Scientific Use Files produced by the four Research Data Centers (RDC) in Germany. (RDC...

EU-SILC will become one of the most important statistical data sources for the Federal Government's future Poverty and Wealth Reports, for comparing Germany's position with those of the other EU member states in the “open method of coordination”, and for the international scientific...

„LEBEN IN EUROPA“ heißen auf Deutsch die European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, abgekürzt EU-SILC, die seit 2005 in allen 27 Mitgliedsstaaten der EU und in einigen Nachbarstaaten erhoben werden. Diese Erhebung wird jedes Jahr als rotierendes Panel urchgeführt. Sie wird...