The main users of EU-SILC statistical data are the official statistical service, policy makers, research institutes, media, and students.

The EU-SILC survey is a key instrument for providing information required by the European Semester and the European Pillar of Social Rights, in particular for income distribution, poverty and social exclusion, as well as various related living conditions and poverty EU policies, such as on child poverty, access to health care and other services, housing, over indebtedness and quality of life. It is also the main source of data for microsimulation purposes and flash estimates of income distribution and poverty rates allowing european comparison.

At European level, several working groups and task forces involving member states are organized upstream to agree on the content of the survey.

In France, the questionnaire is drawn up after consultation with the SRCV user group and specialists in the field:

• Insee internal users, such as the “Living Conditions”, “Housing”, “Social Studies” and “Demographic Surveys and Studies” divisions,

• various ministerial statistical departments,

• university researchers,

• public bodies (Unaf, Cnaf, Cnav).

Once a year, the SILC survey design team organises a meeting of the survey's "user group". This group brings together all the partners, researchers and statisticians, who work with the results of the survey.

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