The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is the main source for the compilation of statistics on income, social inclusion and living conditions.

This project is the first specific grant agreement under the framework partnership agreement on statistical disclosure control.

[no-lexicon]The ESSnet “Preparation for exchange of micro-data on Intra-EU trade between Member States" (duration Oct 2013 – Oct 2014) aimed at supporting the NSIs and national authorities compiling Intrastat data in finding agreements concerning a number of practical statistical

[no-lexicon]SIMSTAT project on exchange of micro-data on intra-EU trade between Member States is based on the principle that data collected and available within the ESS should not be collected a second time.

Main objectives: to study the feasibility of setting up a network of Safe Centres that enables access to confidential microdata sets for research purposes throughout EU countries.

The aim of the ESSnet project DARA is to establish a secure channel from a safe centre within a NSI to the safe server at Eurostat so that researchers can use confidential community statistics in their own Member States without traveling to Luxembourg.

Microdata consist of sets of records containing information on individual respondents. To protect the anonymity of respondents (persons, households, organisations), the access to microdata is restricted. Usually access to microdata is limited to researchers.

Types of microdata

The Data without Boundaries (DwB) project aims to an integrated model for accessing official data, a model where the best solutions for access are available irrespective of national boundaries and flexible enough to fit national arrangements.