Commission Regulation (EC) No 16/2004 of 6 January 2004 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) as regards the list of target secondary variables relating to the "intergenerational transmission of poverty"
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The list of secondary target variables, the variables codes, and the definitions for the Module 2005 relating to the "Intergenerational transmission of poverty" to be included in the cross-sectional component of Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) shall be as laid down in the Annex.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 6 January 2004. For the Commission Pedro Solbes Mira Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 1.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following unit, mode of data collection, reference period and definitions shall apply. 1. Unit Information shall be provided for all current household members or if applicable for all selected respondents, aged over 24 and under 66. 2. Mode of data collection Owing to the characteristics of the information to be collected, only personal interviews (proxy interviews as an exception for persons temporarily away or incapacitated) or information extracted from registers are allowed. 3. Reference period The reference period shall be when the interviewee was a young teenager, between the ages of 12 and 16. If the respondent hesitates or asks for a specific age, the age 14 should be used. 4. Definitions (a) Father: the male person the interviewee considered to be his/her father when the interviewee was a young teenager. (b) Mother: the female person the interviewee considered to be his/her mother when the interviewee was a young teenager. (c) Siblings: brothers and sisters who lived in the same household as the interviewee, when the interviewee was a young teenager. (d) Main: (in main family composition, main number of siblings, main activity status and main occupation) refers to the situation that lasted for the longest time when the interviewee was a young teenager. If uncertain which situation lasted for the longest time, the situation which made the most impression. AREAS AND LIST OF TARGET VARIABLES >TABLE>
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