Commission Regulation (EC) No 13/2005Show full title

ANNEX

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following unit, mode of data collection, reference periods and definitions shall apply.

1. UNIT

Information shall be provided for all current household members, or if applicable for all selected respondents, aged 16 years old and over.

2. MODE OF DATA COLLECTION

Owing to the characteristics of the information to be collected, only personal interviews (proxy interviews as an exception for persons temporarily away or incapacitated) or information extracted from registers are allowed.

3. REFERENCE PERIOD

— Last 12 months shall be used for variables related to participation in cultural events, and participation in formal and informal activities.

— Usual shall be used for variables related to integration with relatives and friends. Usual refers to the usual frequency with which the activities take place during a normal year.

— Current for the variable ‘Ability to ask any relative, friend or neighbour for help’.

4. DEFINITIONS

(a) Relatives: shall be understood in the widest sense, and shall include father/mother/children, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, nieces and families-in-law.

(b) Friends: people the respondent gets together with in his/her spare time (i.e. after working hours, at weekends, or for holidays) and with whom the respondent shares private matters.

(c) To get together means spending time with friends or relatives at home or elsewhere. It can be talking or doing some kind of activities together. Merely encountering someone by chance is not considered as ‘being together’.

(d) Frequency of getting together/being in contact with friends and relatives: refers to the frequency with which the respondent gets together/is in contact with any relative/ friend. Not only the person that the respondent gets together/is in contact with most often, is to be considered.

If the respondent meets his/her friends/relatives ‘once a year’ during holidays or feasts, the answer shall be ‘at least once a year’.

(e) Informal voluntary activities: refers to activities that take place outside an organisational context and tend to be done on an individual basis.

Informal voluntary activities include cooking for others; taking care of people in hospitals/at home; taking people for a walk; shopping, etc. It excludes any activity that a respondent undertakes for his/her household, in his/her work or within voluntary organisations.

(f) Participation in cultural events: refers to going to the cinema, live performances, visiting cultural sites or attending live sports events, wherever these events take place and whether these activities are performed by professionals or amateurs. For live sports events and live performances, participation refers only to spectating.

AREAS AND LIST OF TARGET VARIABLES

Variable name	Module 2006	Social participation
	Code	Target variable
Basic data
RB030		Personal ID
	ID number	Personal identification number (PID)
PS005		Personal cross-sectional weight
	0+(Format 2.5)	Weight
Participation in cultural events
PS010		Number of times going to the cinema
	1	None
	2	1-3 times
	3	4-6 times
	4	7-12 times
	5	More than 12 times
PS010_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS020		Number of times going to live performances (plays, concerts, operas, ballet and dance performances)
	1	None
	2	1-3 times
	3	4-6 times
	4	7-12 times
	5	More than 12 times
PS020_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS030		Number of visits to cultural sites
	1	None
	2	1-3 visits
	3	4-6 visits
	4	7-12 visits
	5	More than 12 visits
PS030_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS040		Number of times attending live sport events
	1	None
	2	1-3 times
	3	4-6 times
	4	7-12 times
	5	More than 12 times
PS040_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
Integration with relatives, friends and neighbours
PS050		Frequency of getting together with relatives
	1	Daily
	2	Every week (not every day)
	3	Several times a month (not every week)
	4	Once a month
	5	At least once a year (less than once a month)
	6	Never
PS050_F	-2	N/A (No relatives)
	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS060		Frequency of getting together with friends
	1	Daily
	2	Every week (not every day)
	3	Several times a month (not every week)
	4	Once a month
	5	At least once a year (less than once a month)
	6	Never
PS060_F	-2	N/A (No friends)
	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS070		Frequency of contacts with relatives
	1	Daily
	2	Every week (not every day)
	3	Several times a month (not every week)
	4	Once a month
	5	At least once a year (less than once a month)
	6	Never
PS070_F	-2	N/A (No relatives)
	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS080		Frequency of contacts with friends
	1	Daily
	2	Every week (not every day)
	3	Several times a month (not every week)
	4	Once a month
	5	At least once a year (less than once a month)
	6	Never
PS080_F	-2	N/A (No friends)
	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
Integration with relatives, friends and neighbours
PS090		Ability to ask any relative, friend or neighbour for help
	1	Yes
	2	No
PS090_F	-2	N/A (No relatives, friends, neighbours)
	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
Formal and informal participation
PS100		Participation in informal voluntary activities
	1	Daily
	2	Every week (not every day)
	3	Several times a month (not every week)
	4	Once a month
	5	At least once a year (less than once a month)
	6	Never
PS100_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS110		Participation in activities of political parties or trade unions
	1	Yes
	2	No
PS110_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS120		Participation in activities of professional associations
	1	Yes
	2	No
PS120_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS130		Participation in activities of churches or other religious organisations
	1	Yes
	2	No
PS130_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS140		Participation in activities of recreational groups or organisations
	1	Yes
	2	No
PS140_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS150		Participation in activities of charitable organisations
	1	Yes
	2	No
PS150_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled
PS160		Participation in activities of other groups or organisations
	1	Yes
	2	No
PS160_F	-1	Missing
	1	Variable is filled