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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 and SDG 1 on ending poverty in all its forms everywhere.

SDG 7 among other things calls for ensuring universal access to modern energy services, improving energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy and to accelerate the transition to an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy system. SDG 1 calls for an eradication of extreme poverty and for a reduction of relative poverty over the next 15 years and seeks among other things to ensure equal rights and access to economic and natural resources as well as technology.

The EU Cohesion Policy (2014-2020) provides about EUR 350 billion of investments into smart, sustainable and inclusive growth from 2014-2020. One of its objectives is to combat poverty through its investments in housing and regeneration of deprived urban and rural areas.

The indicator measures the share of population who are in the state of enforced inability 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.

% of population
i. total
ii. below 60% of median equivalised income
iii. above 60% of median equivalised income

Calendar year.

From 2005 onwards EU-SILC is based on a common framework defined by harmonised lists of primary and secondary variables, common concepts, a recommended design, common requirements (such as imputation procedures, weighting, sampling errors calculation) and classifications aiming at maximising comparability of the information produced. 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 in November.

T+1 year

New data points are disseminated within one year after the reference year.

All EU MS

Data are presented for all EU Member States plus the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey.

All EU MS

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

5 to 10 years

Presented time series (including EU aggregates) starts in year 2007.

> 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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