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Back Income poverty and material deprivation in European countries


Since 2009, the European Union (EU) portfolio of commonly agreed social indicators includes measures of material deprivation. The rationale for this inclusion is that if purely income-based indicators of poverty and inequality are essential, they are nevertheless not sufficient to satisfactorily reflect the diversity of living conditions in the EU, especially since the 2004 and 2007 enlargements. The paper analyses the relationship between income poverty and material deprivation in 25 European countries (24 EU Member States plus Norway) and aims at identifying the most important factors that determine the risk of being income poor and/or materially deprived. It is based on the 2007 cross-sectional data of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) users' database.

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Release date: 10 January 2011

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Product code: KS-RA-10-030
ISBN 978-92-79-18874-9
ISSN 1977-0375
doi:10.2785/1144
Theme: Population and social conditions
Collection: Statistical working papers