Using EU-SILC to design and evaluate policies against child poverty in Spain

EU-SILC is an essential tool for research on social policy. This article compiles, on one hand, the applications of this survey by the Office of the High Commissioner against Child Poverty in Spain. This Office used the Spanish version of the survey on fields such as the design of a minimum income scheme, the evaluation of energy poverty from a child perspective, the changing dynamics of poverty according to country of origin, or the impact of housing costs on poverty. On the other hand, the article also proposes some recommendations for possible improvements of the survey, such as the introduction of labour market trajectories or information on daily living expenses, for instance schooling costs.