Material Deprivation in Selected EU Countries According to EU-SILC Income Statistics
Journal Title: Journal of Competitiveness - Year 2012, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
The article deals with issues of households at risk of poverty in relative conception. Income poverty means a situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty is based on identification and assessment of material deprivation factors, including: financial stress, housing conditions, availability of consumer durables and basic needs. Data sources are based EU-SILC dataset. Presented analysis is focused on selected EU countries, namely Czech Republic, Finland, France, Spain and United Kingdom. The result identifies the problem areas that cause deprivation symptoms.
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Jana Stávková, Naďa Birčiaková
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- DOI 10.7441/joc.2012.02.10
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