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(SILC).
People at risk of poverty or social exclusion are those who are at risk of poverty or severely materially deprived or living in households with very low work intensity. Persons are only counted once even if they are present in two or three sub-indicators.
At risk-of-poverty are persons with an equivalised disposable income below the 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.
Severely materially deprived persons have living conditions severely constrained by a lack of financial resources, irrespective of persons’ preference with respect to these items. They experience at least four out of nine following deprivations items: cannot afford 1) to pay rent or mortgage, utility bills, loan payments, 2) to keep home adequately warm, 3) to face unexpected expenses, 4) to eat meat, fish or a protein equivalent every second day, 5) a week holiday away from home, 6) a car, 7) a washing machine, 8) a colour TV, or 9) a telephone. The deprivation items are the same as in the indicator 'material deprivation rate'.
People living in households with very low work intensity are those aged 0-59 living in households where the adults (aged 18-59) worked less than 20% of their total work potential (expressed in months) during the past year (income reference year); work intensity of these households was 0 to 0.2.
People experiencing all three forms of social exclusion are at the intersection of all three social exclusion indicators: they are at risk of poverty, severely materially deprived and living in a household with low work intensity.

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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.