The results of the Eurostat ECHP/SILC survey are significantly different from those of SES due to the above mentioned reasons.
Moreover, behind the average values such data can be found as the increase of the Swedish pay gap (1994) of 16% to 17%, or the increase of the Danish pay gap of 11% in 1994 to 15% by 2001 or to 18% by 2005.
Simultaneously, the survey showed a decrease in case of Great Britain which was characterized by a pay gap of well above the average of the European Union in 1994 (a pay gap of nearly 30% in favour of men). By 2004 the foregoing difference was ’only’ 22-23%.
In Germany the pay gap above 20% in 1994 sharply fell to below 20% by 1999, but later after a slight but continuous increase it reached the level of 24% by 2004.

The countries of the best performance which were characterized by the smallest pay gaps at the beginning and at the end of the period as well were the following: Belgium, France, Italy and Portugal. According to the data of Eurostat the positions of Great Britain, Estonia and Cyprus did not change, they remained among the countries characterized by large pay gaps. The position of Germany worsened as it slid down from the group of countries of medium pay gaps to the countries of large pay gaps. Hungary, however, climbed up from the group of medium pay gaps (1995) to the group of countries of small pay gaps by 2005.