The objective of the Social Inclusion strand of the Open Method of Coordination is to have a "decisive impact on the eradication of poverty" by ensuring access to the resources and rights needed for participation in society, the active inclusion of all and well-coordinated social inclusion policies.

Primary indicators

•  At-risk-of-poverty rate
•  At-risk-of-poverty threshold
•  Relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap
•  Long term unemployment rate
•  People living in jobless households
•  Early leavers from education and training
•  Material deprivation rate
•  Self-reported unmet need for medical care
•  In-work at-risk-of-poverty rate

Secondary indicators

•  At-risk-of-poverty rate by household type
•  At-risk-of-poverty rate by work intensity of the household
•  At-risk-of-poverty rate by most frequent activity status
•  At-risk-of-poverty rate by tenure status
•  Dispersion around the at-risk-of-poverty threshold
•  At-risk-of-poverty rate of children living in households at work
•  Persons with low educational attainment
•  Depth of material deprivation
•  Housing cost overburden rate by sex
•  Housing cost overburden rate by age group
•  Housing cost overburden rate by poverty status
•  Housing cost overburden rate by income quintile
•  Housing cost overburden rate by tenure status
•  Housing cost overburden rate by degree of urbanisation
•  Housing cost overburden rate by household type
•  Overcrowding rate (total population) by sex
•  Overcrowding rate (total population) by age group
•  Overcrowding rate (total population) by poverty status
•  Overcrowding rate (total population) by tenure status
•  Overcrowding rate (total population) by degree of urbanisation
•  Overcrowding rate (total population) by degree of household type
•  Overcrowding rate (population without single-person households) by sex, age group and poverty status
•  Population in jobless households

Context indicators

•  Inequality of income distribution - S80/S20 income quintile share ratio
•  Inequality of income distribution - Gini coefficient
•  Regional cohesion: dispersion in regional employment rates
•  Healthy life expectancy and life expectancy at birth and at age 65
•  At-risk-of-poverty rate anchored at a fixed moment in time (2008)
•  At-risk-of-poverty rate before social transfers except pensions
• Population in jobless households
•  In-work at-risk-of-poverty rate
•  Unemployment trap
•  Low-wage trap
•  Self reported limitations in daily activities by income quintiles (activity restriction for at least the past 6 months)
•  Median of the housing cost burden distribution (median share of housing cost) by sex, age group and poverty status
•  Median of the housing cost burden distribution (median share of housing cost) by degree of urbanisation