Commission Regulation (EC) No 16/2004 of 6 January 2004 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 list of target secondary variables relating to the "intergenerational transmission of poverty"
Date: 2004-01-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, household, income, living conditions, statistical method

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 16/2004

of 6 January 2004

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 list of
target secondary variables relating to the ‘intergenerational transmission of poverty’

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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

(3)

family environment as key domains of influence on adult
social exclusion impacting on poverty risk during adult-
hood) including the specification of variables codes and
definitions is to be defined.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
Statistical
the
accordance with
Programme Committee,

opinion

the

of

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 established a common
framework for the systematic production of Community
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
Union levels.

Pursuant to Article 15(2)(f) of Regulation (EC) No 1177/
2003, implementing measures are necessary concerning
the list of target secondary areas and variables that shall
be included every year in the cross-sectional component
of EU-SILC. For
target
the year 2005,
secondary variables included in the module ‘Intergenera-
tional transmission of poverty’ (particularly on parental
education and occupation background and on childhood

the list of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The list of secondary target variables, the variables codes, and
the definitions for the Module 2005 relating to the ‘Intergenera-
tional transmission of poverty’ to be included in the cross-
sectional component of Community statistics on income and
living conditions (EU-SILC) shall be as laid down in the Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the 20th 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, 6 January 2004.

For the Commission

Pedro SOLBES MIRA

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 1.

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For the purposes of this Regulation, the following unit, mode of data collection, reference period and definitions shall
apply.

ANNEX

1. Unit

Information shall be provided for all current household members or if applicable for all selected respondents, aged
over 24 and under 66.

2. Mode of data collection

Owing to the characteristics of the information to be collected, only personal interviews (proxy interviews as an
exception for persons temporarily away or incapacitated) or information extracted from registers are allowed.

3. Reference period

The reference period shall be when the interviewee was a young teenager, between the ages of 12 and 16. If the
respondent hesitates or asks for a specific age, the age 14 should be used.

4. Definitions

(a) Father: the male person the interviewee considered to be his/her father when the interviewee was a young teen-

ager.

(b) Mother: the female person the interviewee considered to be his/her mother when the interviewee was a young

teenager.

(c) Siblings: brothers and sisters who lived in the same household as the interviewee, when the interviewee was a

young teenager.

(d) Main: (in main family composition, main number of siblings, main activity status and main occupation) refers to
the situation that lasted for the longest time when the interviewee was a young teenager. If uncertain which situa-
tion lasted for the longest time, the situation which made the most impression.

AREAS AND LIST OF TARGET VARIABLES

Variable name

Module 2005

Code

Intergenerational transmission of poverty

Target variable

RB030

PM005

PM010

PM010_F

Basic data

Personal ID

ID number

Personal identification number (PID)

Personal intergenerational cross-sectional weight

0 + (Format 2.5)

Weight

Family data

Main family composition

Lived with both parents

Lived with single mother (single-parent family)

Lived with single father (single-parent family)

Lived with mother and mother's new partner/husband

Lived with father and father's new partner/wife

Lived in another private household, foster home

Lived in a collective household or institution

Missing

Variable is filled

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

– 1

1

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Variable name

Module 2005

Code

Intergenerational transmission of poverty

Target variable

PM020

PM020_F

PM030

PM030_F

PM035

PM035_F

PM040

PM040_F

PM050

PM050_F

Year of birth of father

Year

Four digits of year

– 2

– 1

1

N.a. (no father)

Missing

Variable is filled

Year of birth of mother

Year

Four digits of year

– 2

– 1

1

N.a. (no mother)

Missing

Variable is filled

Main number of siblings

Number

Two digits of number

– 1

1

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

– 2

– 1

1

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

– 2

– 1

1

Missing

Variable is filled

Educational data

Highest ISCED (1) level of education attained by father

Less than primary education

Primary education

Lower secondary education

Upper secondary education

Post-secondary non-tertiary education

First stage of tertiary education

Second stage of tertiary education

N.a. (no father)

Missing

Variable is filled

Highest ISCED (1) level of education attained by mother

Less than primary education

Primary education

Lower secondary education

Upper secondary education

Post-secondary non-tertiary education

First stage of tertiary education

Second stage of tertiary education

N.a. (no mother)

Missing

Variable is filled

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Variable name

Module 2005

Code

Intergenerational transmission of poverty

Target variable

PM060

Main activity status of father

Occupational data

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

– 2

– 1

1

Employee

Self-employed

Unpaid family-worker

Unemployed

Retired, early-retired

Full time housework

Other

N.a. (no father)

Missing

Variable is filled

Main occupation of father (2)

ISCO Code

ISCO-88(COM) (3) two digits

– 2

– 1

1

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

– 2

– 1

1

N.a. (father never had a job, no father)

Missing

Variable is filled

Main activity status of mother

Employee

Self-employed

Unpaid family-worker

Unemployed

Retired, early-retired

Full time housework

Other

N.a. (no mother)

Missing

Variable is filled

Main occupation of mother (2)

ISCO Code

ISCO-88(COM) (3) two digits

– 2

– 1

1

N.a. (mother never had a job, no mother)

Missing

Variable is filled

PM060_F

PM070

PM070_F

PM080

PM080_F

PM090

PM090_F

(1)
(2)
(3)

ISCED 1997: International Standard Classification of Education 1997.
If PM060 or PM080 = 4, 5, 6 or 7, this refers to the last occupation.
ISCO-88(COM): International Standard Classification of Occupations (for European purposes), 1988 version.