Amending the EU material deprivation indicator: impact on size and composition of deprived population.

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Abstract

Since 2009, the portfolio of social indicators used by EU countries and the European Commission for monitoring progress towards the EU social protection and social inclusion objectives (see Chapter 1 in this book) includes measures of material deprivation(MD) (105). These MD measures have been endorsed at EU level as a response to the need to complement EU income poverty and social exclusion indicators with indicators that better reflect differences in actual standards of living across the EU ? a need which had become even more urgent after the 2004 and 2007 enlargements. Based on the limited information available from the EU-SILC data-set and building on the work by Guio (2009), the 'standard' EU MD rate is currently defined as the proportion of people living in households who are confronted with at least three of the following nine lacks: 1. they cannot face unexpected expenses; 2. they cannot afford 1 week annual holiday away from home; 3. they cannot avoid arrears (in mortgage or rent, utility bills or hire purchase instalments); 4. they cannot afford a meal with meat, chicken, fish or vegetarian equivalent every second day; 5. they cannot keep their homes adequately warm; 6. they cannot afford a washing machine (enforced lack); 7. they cannot afford a colour TV (enforced lack); 8. they cannot afford a telephone (enforced lack); 9. they do not have access to a car/van for personal use (enforced lack).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMonitoring social inclusion in Europe
Place of PublicationLuxembourg
PublisherOffice of the European Union
Pages193-208
Number of pages0
ISBN (Print)978-92-79-43623-9
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • EU-SILC
  • poverty
  • social inclusions
  • social indicators

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