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HCSO completes revision to EU-SILC data collection, 29/09/2025

The Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HCSO) completed the planned revision to the EU-SILC data collection, for the period between 2018 and 2023. As a result of the revision, the main indicator of poverty, the rate of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, did not change significantly at national level in any of the years. The revision confirmed the reliability of EU-SILC data and methodology, and also pointed out that pre-revision data had already provided an appropriate basis for monitoring poverty.

HCSO carried out a major revision to data coming from the EU-SILC data collection – examining the living conditions and income position of households – and referring to the period between 2018 and 2023. The Office made the revision as planned in advance and independently of the relevant news published in the press.

In the frame of the revision, HCSO, using population data from the 2022 Census, re-weighted. EU-SILC data. Over the revision, HCSO also considered remarks having come from users in the last years. As a result:

  • the method of imputation of income data was fine-tuned in order to make the distribution more accurate;
  • by making the grossing-up algorithm more accurate, there is no more inconsistency between net and gross incomes;
  • by optimising the imputation procedure, excessive volatility in the poverty risk gap of the different groups is over as well.

As a result of the revision, the main indicator of poverty, the rate of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, did not change in effect at national level in any of the years.. However, the risk of poverty of certain groups of the population was slightly restructured.

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The share of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion is a composite indicator that measures the share of people affected by either relative income poverty or severe material and social deprivation or very low work intensity. Merely one of the components of the complex indicator, relative income poverty changed in effect. However, neither the main indicator nor the trend of the components altered.

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The information coming from the EU-SILC data collection have already constituted a reliable basis for decision-making and researches. The updated data, however, further fine-tune earlier estimates, and allow more accurate analyses than earlier on. . Eurostat also validated the revised data and will soon publish them.

HCSO continues to be committed to supporting the utilisation of data for scientific purposes and is open to co-operation and professional dialogue with users. The results and the related documentation are available at the usual channels: static tables at HCSO website (Living conditions, Income and consumption), and microdata files in the Safe Centre.

  • Pre-revision data have already constituted an appropriate basis for monitoring poverty.
  • As a result of the revision, the main indicator of poverty, the rate of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, did not change in effect at national level in any of the years.
  • The revision confirmed the reliability of EU-SILC data and methodology.

HCSO is dedicated to ensure trustworthy, accurate, up-to-date and comparable statistics in the future, too.

 

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