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Inquiries by freephone +371 80008811 on weekdays from 10:00 to 18:00 o’clock and by e-mail at silc@csp.gov.l
Inquiries by freephone +371 80008811 on weekdays from 10:00 to 18:00 o’clock and by e-mail at silc@csp.gov.l
European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), based on a common and verified methodology, has been collected in all EU countries for 20 years. It allows to reflect EU-level and national trends and compare various social and economic aspects affecting well-being of households and individuals.
Latvian EU-SILC survey every year covers about eight thousand households, i.e., one in a hundred. It is an opportunity to share opinions about general and financial well-being as well as living conditions, which contributes to the production of objective survey results and depiction of the actual situation.
Survey results will be extensively used by national and local authorities when making decisions that affect everyday life of the inhabitants, e.g., income, benefits, pensions, health care services, etc. Therefore, responsiveness and cooperation are significant to get accurate and fair insight into the life of the population.
Read more about the EU-SILC on the Eurostat website.
The applicable laws and regulations of the European Union and of the Republic of Latvia allows the CSB to collect and process personal data and mandates it to ensure the protection and confidentiality of the data received. Please note that only summarised data will be published, thus preventing identification of individuals. Read more about CSB data protection and processing policy on the CSB website Privacy Policy section.
The e-survey will be available from 31 January to 21 February 2024 in the CSB Electronic Data Collection (EDC) system e.csp.gov.lv. Please note that it should be filled in by the addressee of the invitational letter.
Only the addressees of the invitational letter are authorised by the EDC system and can log in with Internet bank, e-identification card, or e-signature. If the questionnaire is filled in by another person, he/she shall take a full responsibility for the veracity of the information provided.
Guidelines for respondents on how to fill in the e-survey (available in Latvian only).
If due to some reason respondent is not able to complete e-survey during the web-interviewing period mentioned, he/she will be contacted by a CSB interviewer from 31 January to 30 June 2024 to arrange a telephone or face-to-face interview.
Upon arrival, the interviewer will present a CSB employee identification card with a photo. If you want to verify identity of your interviewer or find out any other information about the survey:
EU-SILC shows that more than 40 % of all seniors and 70 % of the seniors living alone are at risk of poverty.
The decisions made have contributed to higher income of the elderly population.
EU-SILC is pointing towards a great income inequality in Latvia. E.g., 23.3 % of the population were at risk of poverty in 2017, moreover, income of the poorest inhabitants was 6.8 times smaller than that of the richest. To achieve sharper increase in the guaranteed minimum income level, the Ombudsman's Office, referring to the EU-SILC, applied to the Constitutional Court with a request for the government to improve living conditions of the population at risk of poverty more significantly.
As of 1 January 2024 the most vulnerable part of the population of Latvia will be supported even stronger.
In addition, a decision has been made to increase the minimum wage from EUR 620 to EUR 700 as of the 1 January 2024