It is an empirical fact that women in most, though not all, developed countries receive lower pensions than men. That observation is confirmed in the form of a statistical generalisation, rather than a rule across the EU member states. It is also true to say, though perhaps with less confidence,...

Is quality of life improving in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia? Has the crisis worsened the particularly low baseline revealed by the second European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS)? This report shows the positive progress made in the country over the period 2007-2012 in several aspects...

This Working Paper provides a broad assessment of data accuracy and survey errors in EU-SILC, taking comparability of the results across the national surveys as a basic requirement. A typology of errors in survey data is proposed, distinguishing various categories of errors in measurement on the...

This Working Paper addresses some statistical aspects related to the construction from EU-SILC data of indicators of poverty and social exclusion for sub-national regions. Conceptual and methodological issues in going from the national level - for which EU-SILC surveys are primarily designed- to...