EUROMOD Tax and Benefits Simulator for the European Union
EUROMOD is a tax and benefits' microsimulation model for the European Union, developed by the University of Essex Institute for Social & Economic Research (ISER).
EUROMOD facilitates research and comparable policy analysis of the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes and work incentives for member states and the EU as a whole.
The EUI has established an institutional-level contract with ISER. Each individual user who wishes to access this resource is required to register directly with ISER under this contract (full details below).
Belgium 2006 UDB
Belgium 2007 UDB
Sweden 2007 UDB
UK FRS 2003
UK FRS 2008
The third year release (in 2012) will contain updated versions of these datasets, additional years, and data for other EU countries.
The EUROMOD simulator uses underlying EU Statistics on Income & Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data.
The EUROMOD homepage at ISER
EUROMOD simulation capacity: Standard, Advanced and Data Imputation
Information on EUROMOD variables, methodology, and the ongoing upgrade sponsored by DG-EMPL
The EUI has an institutional-level contract with ISER at the University of Essex.
Each individual user who wishes to access this resource is required to register directly with ISER under this contract as follows:
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Complete the form and return to both addresses as an attachment.
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It is also necessary to sign up with the UK Data Archive . When this is done, send a copy of the UKDA confirmation to the Essex address above.
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On approval by ISER, a separate registration form will be sent for signature. Return by fax as instructed.
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ISER will then give access to the 'Filestore' remote file-sharing application.
The Underlying EU-SILC Data
EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions provide comparable, cross-sectional and longitudinal multi-dimensional data on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions in the European Union.
The data is gathered by the member states of the European Union and collated by Eurostat. There are two kinds:
- Cross-sectional Data pertaining to a fixed time period with variables on income, poverty, social exclusion and other living conditions, and;
- Longitudinal Data pertaining to individual-level changes over time, observed periodically – usually over four years.
For full details of access to the complete EU-SILC database at the EUI, please visit this Library page .
Other European, EU and Eurozone statistics resources are described on this Library page .
Contact: Thomas Bourke at econlibrary@eui.eu