Government of the Republic of Serbia
The Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia, have launched the “Secondary Analyses of Data from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC)” Programme.
The Republic of Serbia has conducted the SILC survey since 2013, as the major survey for monitoring the risk of poverty and the living standards in the European Union and the Republic of Serbia. Further analysis of the available data builds capacities of researchers at the beginning of their careers and facilitates evidence-based policy-making relevant to social inclusion.
Programme Goal
The principal goal is to obtain deeper understanding, relying on the most relevant data, of the factors affecting aspects relevant to quality of life in the Republic of Serbia – social exclusion, deprivation, risk of poverty, access to the labour market and other aspects.
The Programme builds analytical and statistical capacities of researchers at the beginning of their careers and promotes the results and possibilities of using data from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) and other relevant data sources.
Programme Implementation
The Programme supports 11 teams of researchers at the beginning of their careers, supported by expert mentors, in looking into unexplored aspects of social inclusion in Serbia on the basis of the most recent data available. The research seeks answers to the following questions:
- What is the unemployment trap and how to calculate it?
- Is the subjective sense of poverty and needs relevant to monitoring poverty?
- Is it possible to predict factors affecting risk of poverty in Serbia?
- What are healthy life years and how to calculate them?
- What challenges are faced by youth in their transition to the labour market?
- How does environmental status affect poverty and inequality?
- How vulnerable is the population aged 50-64 in the labour market?
- What factors determine rural population’ income structure and level?
- Is there a link between quality of life and degree of urbanization?
- Who are socially vulnerable groups?
- Does own consumption reduce risk of poverty?
Research results will be published towards the end of 2015.
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