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Commission Regulation (EU) No 112/2013 of 7 February 2013 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament            and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the 2014 list of target            secondary variables on material deprivation (Text with EEA relevance)         

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# Commission Regulation (EU) No 112/2013                     

# of 7 February 2013

# implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on                        income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the 2014 list of target secondary variables on material deprivation                     

# (Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 June 2003 concerning Community                           statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC)(1), and in particular Article 15(2)(f) thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 established a common framework for the systematic production of European statistics on income                              and living conditions, encompassing comparable and timely cross-sectional and longitudinal data on income and on the level                              and composition of poverty and social exclusion at national and European levels.

(2)Pursuant to Article 15(2)(f) of Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003, implementing measures are necessary in respect of the list of                              target secondary areas and variables that is to be included every year in the cross-sectional component of EU-SILC. The list                              of target secondary variables to be incorporated in the module on material deprivation should be laid down for the year 2014,                              together with the corresponding variables’ identifiers.

(3)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

# Article 1U.K.

The list of target secondary variables and the variables’ identifiers for the 2014 module on material deprivation to be included                     in the cross-sectional component of European statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) shall be as laid down in                     the Annex.                  

# Article 2U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the *Official Journal of the European Union*.                  

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 7 February 2013.

*For the Commission*                            

*The President*                            

José Manuel Barroso                            

## ANNEXU.K.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following units, mode of data collection and reference period apply:

### 1.**Units**U.K.

The target variables relate to different types of units:

The variable relating to financial stress applies at household level and refers to the household as a whole.

Information on basic needs, leisure and social activities, durables and mobility in the category ‘adult items’ is to be provided                     for each current household member, or, if applicable, for all selected respondents aged 16 and over.                  

All children’s items relate to all household members aged between 1 and 15 except the two variables on educational needs that                     concern only children attending school. The questions are to be answered by the household respondent for the whole group of                     children. If at least one child does not have the item in question, the whole group of children in the household is assumed                     not to have the item.                  

The age refers to the age at the end of the income reference period.

### 2.**Mode of data collection**U.K.

For variables applying at household level, the mode of data collection is personal interview with the household respondent.

For variables applying at individual level, the mode of data collection is personal interview with all current household members                     aged 16 and over or, if applicable, with each selected respondent.                  

For children’s variables the mode of data collection is personal interview with the household respondent.

Given the type of information to be collected, only personal interviews (proxy interviews as an exception for persons temporarily                     absent or incapacitated) are allowed.                  

### 3.**Reference period**U.K.

The reference period for all target variables is the current situation.

### 4.**Data transmission**U.K.

The target secondary variables should be sent to the Commission (Eurostat) in the Household Data File (H-file) and in the                     Personal Data File (P-file) after the target primary variables.                  

#### **2014 MODULE ON MATERIAL DEPRIVATION AREAS AND LIST OF TARGET VARIABLES**

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OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 1.