Commission Regulation (EC) No 13/2005 of 6 January 2005 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 ‘social participation’Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2005-01-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU statistics, social participation, statistical method

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 13/2005

of 6 January 2005

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 ‘social participation’

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

(3)

the list of
target secondary variables included in the
module ‘Social participation’, (which relates particularly
to participation in cultural events,
integration with
friends and neighbours, and participation in
relatives,
set out,
formal and informal activities)
together with variable codes and definitions.

should be

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

opinion

the

of

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

for

the

systematic

Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 established a common
framework
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.

production

Under Article 15(2)(f) of Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003,
implementing measures are necessary for the list of target
secondary areas and variables to be included every year
in the cross-sectional component of EU-SILC. For 2006,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The list of target secondary variables, the variable codes, and the
definitions for the 2006 Module for ‘social participation’ 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
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

Done at Brussels, 6 January 2005.

For the Commission

Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission

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

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ANNEX

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

1. UNIT

Information shall be provided for all current household members, or if applicable for all selected respondents, aged 16
years old and over.

2. MODE OF DATA COLLECTION

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

interviews (proxy interviews as an

3. REFERENCE PERIOD

— Last 12 months shall be used for variables related to participation in cultural events, and participation in formal

and informal activities.

— Usual shall be used for variables related to integration with relatives and friends. Usual refers to the usual frequency

with which the activities take place during a normal year.

— Current for the variable ‘Ability to ask any relative, friend or neighbour for help’.

4. DEFINITIONS

(a) Relatives: shall be understood in the widest sense, and shall include father/mother/children, siblings, grandparents,

aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces and families-in-law.

(b) Friends: people the respondent gets together with in his/her spare time (i.e. after working hours, at weekends, or for

holidays) and with whom the respondent shares private matters.

(c) To get together means spending time with friends or relatives at home or elsewhere. It can be talking or doing
some kind of activities together. Merely encountering someone by chance is not considered as ‘being together’.

(d) Frequency of getting together/being in contact with friends and relatives: refers to the frequency with which the
respondent gets together/is in contact with any relative/ friend. Not only the person that the respondent gets
together/is in contact with most often, is to be considered.

If the respondent meets his/her friends/relatives ‘once a year’ during holidays or feasts, the answer shall be ‘at least
once a year’.

(e) Informal voluntary activities: refers to activities that take place outside an organisational context and tend to be

done on an individual basis.

Informal voluntary activities include cooking for others; taking care of people in hospitals/at home; taking people
for a walk; shopping, etc. It excludes any activity that a respondent undertakes for his/her household, in his/her
work or within voluntary organisations.

(f) Participation in cultural events: refers to going to the cinema, live performances, visiting cultural sites or attending
live sports events, wherever these events take place and whether these activities are performed by professionals or
amateurs. For live sports events and live performances, participation refers only to spectating.

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AREAS AND LIST OF TARGET VARIABLES

Variable name

Module 2006

Code

Social participation

Target variable

RB030

PS005

PS010

PS010_F

PS020

PS020_F

PS030

PS030_F

PS040

PS040_F

Basic data

Personal ID

ID number

Personal identification number (PID)

Personal cross-sectional weight

0+(Format 2.5) Weight

Participation in cultural events

Number of times going to the cinema

1

2

3

4

5

-1

1

1

2

3

4

5

-1

1

1

2

3

4

5

-1

1

1

2

3

4

5

-1

1

None

1-3 times

4-6 times

7-12 times

More than 12 times

Missing

Variable is filled

Number of times going to live performances (plays, concerts, operas,
ballet and dance performances)

None

1-3 times

4-6 times

7-12 times

More than 12 times

Missing

Variable is filled

Number of visits to cultural sites

None

1-3 visits

4-6 visits

7-12 visits

More than 12 visits

Missing

Variable is filled

Number of times attending live sport events

None

1-3 times

4-6 times

7-12 times

More than 12 times

Missing

Variable is filled

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Variable name

Module 2006

Code

Social participation

Target variable

PS050

Frequency of getting together with relatives

Integration with relatives, friends and neighbours

1

2

3

4

5

6

-2

-1

1

1

2

3

4

5

6

-2

-1

1

1

2

3

4

5

6

-2

-1

1

1

2

3

4

5

6

-2

-1

1

1

2

-2

-1

1

Daily

Every week (not every day)

Several times a month (not every week)

Once a month

At least once a year (less than once a month)

Never

N/A (No relatives)

Missing

Variable is filled

Frequency of getting together with friends

Daily

Every week (not every day)

Several times a month (not every week)

Once a month

At least once a year (less than once a month)

Never

N/A (No friends)

Missing

Variable is filled

Frequency of contacts with relatives

Daily

Every week (not every day)

Several times a month (not every week)

Once a month

At least once a year (less than once a month)

Never

N/A (No relatives)

Missing

Variable is filled

Frequency of contacts with friends

Daily

Every week (not every day)

Several times a month (not every week)

Once a month

At least once a year (less than once a month)

Never

N/A (No friends)

Missing

Variable is filled

Integration with relatives, friends and neighbours

Ability to ask any relative, friend or neighbour for help

Yes

No

N/A (No relatives, friends, neighbours)

Missing

Variable is filled

PS050_F

PS060

PS060_F

PS070

PS070_F

PS080

PS080_F

PS090

PS090_F

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Variable name

Module 2006

Code

Social participation

Target variable

PS100

Participation in informal voluntary activities

Formal and informal participation

1

2

3

4

5

6

-1

1

1

2

-1

1

1

2

-1

1

1

2

-1

1

1

2

-1

1

1

2

-1

1

1

2

-1

1

Daily

Every week (not every day)

Several times a month (not every week)

Once a month

At least once a year (less than once a month)

Never

Missing

Variable is filled

Participation in activities of political parties or trade unions

Yes

No

Missing

Variable is filled

Participation in activities of professional associations

Yes

No

Missing

Variable is filled

Participation in activities of churches or other religious organisations

Yes

No

Missing

Variable is filled

Participation in activities of recreational groups or organisations

Yes

No

Missing

Variable is filled

Participation in activities of charitable organisations

Yes

No

Missing

Variable is filled

Participation in activities of other groups or organisations

Yes

No

Missing

Variable is filled

PS100_F

PS110

PS110_F

PS120

PS120_F

PS130

PS130_F

PS140

PS140_F

PS150

PS150_F

PS160

PS160_F