Statistics on income and living conditions 2025 

EU - SILC - 2025

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Source data

The French data are taken from the statistics on income and living conditions (SILC): the majority of the data are taken from the SILC survey. The amounts for income and social security benefits are then obtained by matching with administrative data (taken from tax and social security sources).

Frequency of data collection

Annual

Data collection

The first round of interviews for the SRCV 2025 survey was conducted in person, but follow-up interviews
were conducted by telephone.

Although the majority of the variables were obtained by means of surveys, income was obtained by means of matching with the tax and social security files.

Data collection period

The collection of the SILC 2023 survey took place in metropolitan France (excluding Mayotte) from 27 January to 12 April 2025.

Collection mode

  • Face to face by interviewer
  • By phone

Survey unit

Household

Sample size

The sample size of the SRCV survey is approximately 17,000 respondent households in France, i.e. 37,800 individuals over the age of 16

Data collection documents

The SRCV 2025 questionnaire is below:

Data validation

The format of the data is verified and validated through the check programs provided by Eurostat.

Data compilation

In 2020, the FR-SILC survey was redesigned, in order to comply with the IESS regulation.

The whole statistical processing and editing chain has been rewritten (from SAS to R). The new weighting and imputation procedures are described.

Adjustment

Not applicable

Seasonal adjustment

Not applicable