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"

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
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
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 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.
(2) 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 the year 2005, the list of target secondary variables included in the module "Intergenerational transmission of poverty" (particularly on parental education and occupation background and on childhood family environment as key domains of influence on adult social exclusion impacting on poverty risk during adulthood) including the specification of variables codes and definitions is to be defined.
(3) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Statistical Programme Committee,