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E2: Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development

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The indicator is part of the EU Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator set. It is used to monitor progress towards SDG 7 on affordable and clean energy; which is embedded in the European Commission’s Priorities under the 'European Green Deal'.

SDG 7 calls for ensuring universal access to modern energy services, improving energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy. To accelerate the transition to an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy system, countries need to facilitate access to clean energy research, promote investment in energy infrastructure and clean energy technology. 

The indicator measures the share of population who are unable to afford to keep home adequately warm. Data for this indicator are being collected as part of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) to monitor the development of poverty and social inclusion in the EU. The data collection is based on a survey, which means that indicator values are self-reported.

Percentage

Calendar year.

From 2021 onwards EU-SILC Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 foresees the requirements relating to geographical coverage, detailed sample characteristics, including subsampling, common data gathering periods, common standards for editing and imputation, weighting, estimation and variance estimation. Details can be found in the metadata of the source datasets (see link to related metadata).

ESS (SILC)

Data source: Statistics of Income and Living Conditions (SILC).

Data set provider: Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, based on data reported by the countries.

Every year

Indicator is updated annually. Complete and updated ESS data release information can be accessed via Eurostat release calendar.

T+1 year

New data points are disseminated within the reference year.

“Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 establishes the timeliness of data transmissions from the national statistical institutes. Derogations are granted for number of counties for the timeliness deadlines according to Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/2050:

• variables for the data collection of year N should be transmitted by the end of the year N, but in exceptional cases, provisional microdata concerning income may be transmitted by the end of year N and revised data by 28 February of the year N+1;

• variables related to the observation covering the years of the rotation scheme ending in year N, should be transmitted by 31 October of the year N+1.

According to the regulation, the aggregated data will be published on Eurostat website, as soon as possible and within six months of the transmission deadline for annual and infra‐annual data collection, and within 12 months of the transmission deadline for other data collection, save in duly justified cases.”

All EU MS

Data are presented for all EU Member States plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Türkiye and Kosovo^(*).

_{(*)   This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.}

All EU MS

Data are comparable between all EU Member States respectively other presented countries.

> 10 years

Presented time series (including EU aggregates) starts in year 2010.

> 4 data points

Length of comparable time series without methodological break is longer than 4 data points.

Analysis of indicator is presented in Eurostat's annual monitoring report on Sustainable development in the EU (progress towards SDGs in the EU context).

See table  sdg_07_60

Eurostat dedicated section on SDGs: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/sdi/overview

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