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AT-RISK-OF-POVERTY RATE is the percentage of persons living in households where the equivalised total disposable household income is below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. AT-RISK-OF-POVERTY THRESHOLD is defined as 60% of median equivalised disposable income of all households. The OECD modified scale is used for the calculation of the EQUIVALISED INCOME (income per equivalent adult household member). The scale gives to the first adult in the household weight 1, to every other person aged 14 or more weight 0.5 and to children under 14 weight 0.3.
The basic at-risk-of-poverty rate is the at-risk-of-poverty rate after social transfers, i.e. when all social transfers are included in income. AT-RISK-OF-POVERTY RATE BEFORE SOCIAL TRANSFERS is based on the same at risk of poverty threshold as the at risk of poverty rate, only social transfers are subtracted from total income. It is calculated using two definitions of income, depending on whether pensions are considered as social transfers or not: only »family benefits, disability pensions and other social transfers« or »social transfers including all pensions (old-age and survivors’ benefits)« are subtracted from total income.
INCOME BEFORE SOCIAL TRANSFERS is (net) disposable household income less social transfers (e.g. unemployment insurance, paid sick leave compensation, scholarship, child allowance, maternity leave compensation, adoptive parents' compensation, allowance for nursing a child, assistance for goods for a new-born child, large family allowance, fathers' compensation, parental allowance, financial social assistance, allowance for help and care, housing subsidies, disability benefits, old-age benefits, survivors' benefits). It is calculated using two definitions of income, depending on whether pensions are considered as social transfers or not: only » family benefits, disability pensions and other social transfers« or »social transfers including all pensions (old-age and survivors’ benefits)« are subtracted from total income.

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YEAR

Income, poverty and social exclusion indicators are published for the SILC (Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) survey year. The data on income for calculating these indicators are from a year earlier, i.e. the year before the survey is conducted.
With the 2022 EU-SILC survey, the methodology for calculating income before social transfers has changed slightly, so the data for this indicator from 2022 on are not completely comparable with the data for previous years.

STATISTICAL REGION

Data are territorially classsified according to The Classification of Territorial Units for Statistics – NUTS, (description and explanations), level NUTS 3. Data on changes of individual statistical region are also available at the link.

MEASURES

Number of persons at-risk-of-poverty before social transfers

Some totals do not add up due to rounding.