
Article 1 
The list of target secondary variables, the variable codes, and the definitions for the 2006 Module for ‘social participation’ to be included in the cross-sectional component of Community statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) shall be as laid down in the Annex.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 6 January 2005.
For the Commission
Joaquín ALMUNIA
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following unit, mode of data collection, reference periods and definitions shall apply.

1. 
Information shall be provided for all current household members, or if applicable for all selected respondents, aged 16 years old and over.

2. 
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.  — 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.  (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) 
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 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.

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