COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2021/466

of 17 November 2020

supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the income and living conditions domain on health and quality of life

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and the Council of 10 October 2019 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulations (EC) No 808/2004, (EC) No 452/2008 and (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98 and Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and the Council (1), and in particular Article 6(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) To cover the needs identified in the relevant detailed topics, the Commission should specify the number and title of the variables for the data set in the living conditions domain (EU-SILC).

(2) The EU statistics on income and living conditions survey (‘EU-SILC survey’) is a key instrument for providing information required by the European Semester and the European Pillar of Social Rights, in particular for income distribution, poverty and social exclusion. It also provides information on health care, health determinants, health status and disability from the three-yearly module on Health, and data on well-being and social and cultural participation from the six-yearly module on Quality of life.

(3) The number of variables to be collected does not exceed by more than 5% the number of variables collected for the living conditions domain when Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 entered into force on 3 November 2019,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The number and the title of the variables for the three-yearly module on Health and six yearly module on Quality of life in the living conditions domain are set out in the Annex.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth 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, 17 November 2020.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1)

OJ L 261 I, 14.10.2019, p. 1

ANNEX

Number and titles of the variables for the three yearly module on Health and six yearly module on Quality of life in the income and living conditions domain.

Module	Detailed topic	Variable identifier	Variable name
Health	Health care (6 collected variables)	HS200	Financial burden of medical care (excluding medicines)
		HS210	Financial burden of dental care
		HS220	Financial burden of medicines
		PH090	Number of consultations with a general practitioner or family doctor in the past 12 months
		PH080	Number of consultations with dentist, orthodontist or other dental care specialists in the past 12 months
		PH100	Number of consultations of a medical or surgical specialist (excluding dentists, orthodontists or other dental care specialists) in the past 12 months
	Health determinants (8 collected variables)	PH110A	BMI 1 Weight
		PH110B	BMI 2 Height
		PH122	Type of physical activity when working
		PH132	Frequency of physical activities (excluding working)
		PH142	Frequency of eating fruit (excluding any juice)
		PH152	Frequency of eating vegetables or salad (excluding any juice)
		PH171	Frequency of tobacco use (including electronic cigarettes or similar electronic devices)
		PH180	Frequency of consumption of an alcoholic drink of any kind
	Details on health status and disability (6 collected variables)	PH101	Difficulty in seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses
		PH111	Difficulty in hearing, even when using a hearing aid
		PH121	Difficulty in walking or climbing steps
		PH131	Difficulty in remembering or concentrating
		PH141	Difficulty (with self-care such as) washing all over or dressing
		PH151	Difficulty in communicating (using usual language, for example understanding or being understood by others)
Quality of life	Well-being (7 collected variables)	PW241	Feeling left out
		PW030	Satisfaction with financial situation
		PW160	Satisfaction with personal relationships
		PW120	Satisfaction with time use (amount of leisure time)
		PW230	Feeling lonely
		PW090	Being happy
		PW180	Help from others
	Social and cultural participation (13 collected variables)	PS010	Number of times going to the cinema
		PS020	Number of times going to live performances (plays, concerts, operas, ballet and dance performances)
		PS030	Number of visits to cultural sites
		PS040	Number of times attending live sport events
		PS041	Practice of artistic activities
		PS042	Reading books (including e-books or audio books, during year)
		PS050	Frequency of getting together with family (relatives)
		PS060	Frequency of getting together with friends
		PS070	Frequency of contacts with family (relatives)
		PS080	Frequency of contacts with friends
		PS110	Participation in formal voluntary activities
		PS111	Participation in informal voluntary activities
		PS102	Active citizenship