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Income and living conditions
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Living conditions in Europe
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Abstract
Chief editor
Abstract
Didier Dupré
Eurostat, Unit F.4., Quality of life
Tis publication provides a picture of current
living conditions in Europe, as well as the
socio-economic factors afecting the every-
Editors
day life of Europeans. Chapter 1 focuses on
the fnancial dimensions of poverty and Emilio Di-Meglio, Cristian Rusu,
inequality. Chapter 2 examines to what Anna Rybkowska
extent lack of adequate income can prevent Eurostat, Unit F.4., Quality of life
people from afording an adequate standard
of living. Chapter 3 presents statistics with
regard to housing quality, while, under Map production
Chapter 4, the interactions between living
Eurostat, Unit F.4., Quality of life
conditions and socio-economic factors, such
coordinated by Cristian Rusu
as labour and health status, are examined.
Finally, in Chapter 5, aspects of child pov-
erty and social exclusion are presented.
Dissemination
Te majority of the indicators come from
EU-SILC, with data up to 2012. Catherine Coyette, Isabelle Fiasse,
Fabienne Montaigne
Eurostat, Unit B.4., Dissemination
Production
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction 6
1. Income distribution and inequality 9
1.1 Income distribution 11
1.2 Income inequalities 21
2. Efects of income to living conditions 25
2.1 Poverty and social exclusion 26
2.2 Material deprivation 39
2.3 Economic strain 42
3. Housing quality 49
3.1 Housing conditions 50
3.2 Environment of the dwelling 57
3.3 Housing afordability 64
3.4 Overall satisfaction with the dwelling 70
4. Socio-economic aspects of living conditions 73
4.1 Health conditions 74
4.2 Labour conditions 80
4.3 Childcare arrangements 96
5. Efects of childhood-related factors on living conditions 101
5.1 Aspects of child poverty and social exclusion 102
5.2 Infuence of childhood-related factors to current adults’ situation 111
Glossary 114
Abbreviations & Symbols 128
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Introduction
Last but not least, the ‘Beyond GDP’ (³)
Introduction
debate has drawn attention to the need to
complement GDP measures with indicators
Since the launch of the ‘Europe 2020’ (¹) that encompass environmental and social
Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive aspects of progress.
growth, the importance of income and living
Te ‘EU Statistics on Income and Living
conditions statistics has grown further: one
Conditions (EU-SILC)’ from which data are
of the fve Europe 2020 headline targets is
presented in this pocketbook, is the main
related to social inclusion and consists of
data source for comparative analysis and
lifing at least 20 million people in the EU
indicators on income and living conditions in
from the risk of poverty or social exclusion
the EU, and it allows responding to the infor-
by 2020.
mation needs in the feld of social exclusion.
Te social consequences of the economic and
fnancial crisis have given even more impor-
tance to data on the income andsocial situa-
The publication
tion in order to timely and reliably describe
the situation and patterns. Te statistical book on living conditions
aims at providing a comprehensive picture
Te ‘Social Investment Package’ (²) adopted
of the current living conditions in Europe.
in February 2013, urges countries to put more
Diferent aspects of living conditions are
emphasis on social investment to achieve
covered through a corpus of indicators re-
the EU2020 target, and also increases the
fecting the socio-economic conditions
demand of timely and reliable data on the
afecting the everyday life of Europeans.
social situation in Europe.
Such aspects are related to income, housing,
material deprivation, (child) poverty as well
as social exclusion. Undoubtedly, income,
housing quality as well as health and labour
conditions have an in-depth impact on peo-
ple’s standards of living in the society they
live in.
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1) Fhottrp m://oeruer i-nlefox.remuarotipoan.,e sue/eL:exUriServ/LexUriServ. (3) European Commission, GDP and beyond — Measuring progress
do?uri=COM:2010:2020:FIN:EN:PDF in a changing world, COM (2009) 433 fnal, Brussels, 2009.
(http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:20
(2) For more information, see: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main. 09:0433:FIN:EN:PDF)
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Introduction
Te publication is divided into fve chap- Te data used in the publication were
ters, each one focusing on diferent aspects drawn from Eurostat’s dissemination da-
of living conditions. Chapter 1 focuses on tabase from 25 August to 31 October 2014
the fnancial dimensions of poverty and in- and cover all 28 Member States and EFTA
equality and covers key income-based sta- countries. Te majority of the indicators
tistics and indicators refecting disparities come from EU-SILC and are available up
in the distribution of monetary resources. until 2012. All topics raised in the pub-
Chapter 2 shows how the lack of adequate lication with regard to the intergenera-
income can prevent people from having a tional transmission of disadvantages were
standard of living considered adequate in compiled under the 2011 EU-SILC ad-hoc
their country. Chapter 3 provides statistics module, while data available from the 2012
with regard to housing quality, covering a EU-SILC ad-hoc module throw light on
wide range of housing problems, either per- aspects of housing conditions. Apart from
tinent to the dwelling itself or the environ- the data primarily derived from EU-SILC,
ment of the dwelling. Under Chapter 4, the the Household Budget Survey (HBS) of-
impact of socio-economic factors, such as fers data to this publication that allow the
labour and health status, on people’s living assessment of the welfare of households.
standards is examined. Finally, in Chapter
5, aspects of child poverty and social exclu-
sion along with family-related factors in the
childhood afecting the situation of today’s
adults are presented.
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