Statistics on income and living conditions 2025
EU - SILC - 2025
EU - SILC - 2025
Traitement statistique
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:
- Questionnaire SRCV 2025-en (pdf, en, 1011 Ko, 02/07/2026)
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.
- 2025 Estimation and imputation (pdf, en, 39 Ko, 04/05/2026)
- 2025 SRCV Weighting Procedure (pdf, en, 286 Ko, 10/07/2024)
- Ouvrir dans un nouvel onglet2025 - Quality report SILC
Adjustment
Not applicable
Seasonal adjustment
Not applicable
