Spatial Sensitive Personal Personal

Simulating Welfare and Income Tax Changes on Households

From: Central Statistics Office

National Government

Description

The purpose of the ESRI tax-benefit model SWITCH is to inform policy debate and policy choices using nationally representative data. SWITCH uses detailed data on the incomes and other tax and welfare relevant characteristics of the SILC RMF. SWITCH simulates how households are affected by the rules of the current system, and by proposed reforms.

Coverage

The SWITCH model is based primarily on data from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). The SWITCH model is used for policy research by five government departments (Social Protection, PER, Finance, Health, Children and Youth Affairs) and by the ESRI. Outputs from the SWITCH research programme include independent policy research reports and papers by the ESRI team, and both in-house and public domain analyses of policy issues by Departmental officials. SWITCH outputs are also used for budget planning.

Additional Info

Field	Value
Sector	National Government
Dataset Coverage	The SWITCH model is based primarily on data from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). The SWITCH model is used for policy research by five government departments (Social Protection, PER, Finance, Health, Children and Youth Affairs) and by the ESRI. Outputs from the SWITCH research programme include independent policy research reports and papers by the ESRI team, and both in-house and public domain analyses of policy issues by Departmental officials. SWITCH outputs are also used for budget planning.
Primary Identifier	internal ID
Personal Data	Yes
Sensitive Personal Data	Yes
Business Data	No
Spatial Data	Yes
Data Sharing	No
API Available	No
Open Data	No
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Update frequency	Other
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