European Community household panel
Description of the data collection
The European community household panel (ECHP) is a panel survey consisting of interviews held every year with a sample of households and individuals.
The interviews cover a wide range of topics related to living conditions. They include detailed information on household income, the financial situation in the broad sense, working life, the housing situation, social relations, health, and demographic information.
The total duration of the ECHP was 8 years, running from 1994 to 2001 (8 waves). The countries involved were Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
As of 2003/04, the EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) cover most of the above-mentioned topics.
Availability of data for the public
Plenty of the datasets for income and living conditions contain ECHP-based data for the above-mentioned periods. This includes several indicators on monetary poverty and distribution of income. These are analysed in different ways, for example different by cut-off thresholds such as by age, gender, activity status, and tenure status.
There is also a selection of indicators on non-monetary deprivation derived from ECHP, notably on housing conditions.
Some indicators in the healthcare collections of the public health domain are also based on ECHP.