Data sources and definitions
Most of the data used in this report originates from Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Union. The main data sources used are:
- European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS):
- ESA2010 National Accounts:
- EU-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC):
Definitions and data sources of main indicators
Real GDP: Gross Domestic Product (GDP), volume, annual change (Source: Eurostat, ESA2010 National Accounts [nama_10_gdp]). Dataset available here.
Employment rate: number of people employed divided by the population in the 20-64 age bracket (Source: Eurostat, EU-LFS [lfsi_emp_a]). Dataset available here.
Activity rate: labour force (employed and unemployed) as a share of total population in the 15-64 age group (Source: Eurostat, EU-LFS [lfsi_emp_a]). Dataset available here.
Unemployment and youth unemployment rate: unemployed as a share of the labour force in the (respectively) 15-74 and 15-24 age group (Source: Eurostat, EU-LFS [une_rt_a]). Dataset available here.
Long-term unemployment rate: persons in the 15-74 age group unemployed for a duration of 12 months or more as a share of the labour force (Source: Eurostat, EU-LFS [une_ltu_a]). Dataset available here.
At-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion rate. Percentage of a population representing the sum of persons who are: at risk of poverty, or severely materially and socially deprived, or living in households with very low work intensity (Eurostat, EU-SILC [ilc_peps01n]). Dataset available here.
At-risk-of-poverty rate. Share of people with an equivalised disposable income (after social transfer) below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, which is set at 60 % of the national median equivalised disposable income after social transfers (Eurostat, EU-SILC [ilc_li02]). Dataset available here.
Severe material and social deprivation rate. Inability to afford a set of predefined material items that are considered by most people to be desirable or even necessary to experience an adequate quality of life (Eurostat, EU-SILC [ilc_mdsd11]). Dataset available here.
Share of persons living in households with very low work intensity. Share of persons living in a household where the members of working age worked a working time equal or less than 20% of their total work-time potential during the previous year. (Eurostat, EU-SILC [ilc_lvhl11n]). Dataset available here.
Income quintile share ratio S80/S20. Ratio of total income received by the 20% of the population with the highest income (the top quintile) to that received by the 20% of the population with the lowest income (the bottom quintile) (Eurostat, EU-SILC [ilc_di11]). Dataset available here.
NEET: Young people not in employment, education or training. Share of people aged 15 to 29 who are not employed (i.e. either unemployed or economically inactive) nor engaged in any kind of further (formal or nonformal) education or training (Eurostat, EU-LFS [lfsi_neet_a]). Dataset available here.