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2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPARATIVE EU STATISTICS ON INCOME AND LIVING CONDITIONS
Lisbon, 16-17 October 2014
This conference is organised by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) and the Second Network for the analysis of EU-SILC (Net-SILC2). It is kindly hosted by Statistics Portugal (INE) in the premises of Banco de Portugal1 .
Net-SILC2 is funded by Eurostat and consists of a group of institutions and researchers using the comparative EU data source EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (“EU-SILC”). It brings together expertise from 16 European partners: the Luxembourg-based CEPS/INSTEAD Research Institute (Net-SILC2 coordinator), six National Statistical Institutes (from Austria, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Norway and the UK), the Bank of Italy, and academics from 8 research bodies2 . The primary aims of Net-SILC2 are: to carry out in-depth methodological work and comparative socio-economic research using EU-SILC data; to develop common tools and approaches regarding various aspects of data production; and to manage the overall scientific organisation of the 2012 and 2014 EU-SILC international conferences. Net-SILC2 (June 2011-May 2015) is the successor of Net-SILC1 (December 2008-December 2010)3.
The previous International conference on comparative EU statistics on income and living conditions was hosted by Statistics Austria (Vienna, 5-7 December 2012), starting with a one-day workshop (on the use of registers in the context of EU-SILC) and followed with a 1.5 day conference per say. The finalised conference papers as well as a thematic publication based on the workshop are available on the Net-SILC2 portal at the following address:
http://www.cros-portal.eu/content/second-network-analysis-eu-silc4.
The papers that will be presented at this 2014 International conference on comparative EU statistics on income and living conditions are those prepared during the second half of the Net-SILC2 project. The findings of the 2012 and 2014 conferences are important contributions to the development of the EU-SILC instrument and the EU social indicators. They also contribute to the wider appreciation of the uses that can be made of EU-SILC data in the context of the European Statistical System and the strengthening of the social dimension of the Europe 2020 agenda (in particular the Europe 2020 social inclusion target agreed upon by EU Heads of State and Government).
The conference will be preceded by a Workshop on best practices in key domains for the EU-SILC revision, which is organised as part of this Eurostat/Net-SILC2 international event.
At each session there will be brief presentations (15 minutes each), with a single discussant (15 minutes), allowing sufficient time for general discussion. The role of session chairs will be important during the conference, not only for carefully managing the timing but also for ensuring an active discussion.
1Museum, Largo de S. Julião/Praça do Município, Lisbon.
2These research bodies are: Oxford University (UK), University of Southampton (UK), University of Antwerp (Belgium), University of Bristol (UK), University of Essex (UK), Stockholm University (Sweden), London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), Free University Berlin (Germany).
3Readers interested can download the book on “Income and living conditions in Europe” that was prepared by Net-SILC1: Atkinson, A.B. and Marlier, E. (eds.) (2010). “Income and living conditions in Europe”, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (OPOCE), available at: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-31-10-555/EN/KS-31-10-555-EN.PDF.
4Another international Net-SILC2 workshop, on standard errors estimation and related sampling issues, was organised in Luxembourg on 29-30 March 2012. All the material presented at this workshop as well as the resulting documents (recommendations, computer programmes…) are available at the same address.
