Footnotes

[SILC].
- Methodological explanations

The OVERCROWDING RATE is the percentage of persons living in dwellings with not enough rooms in view of the number of household members. The condition for a dwelling to be overcrowded is that it does not have one room per household and at the same time one room per couple in the household, one room for each single person aged 18 or more, one room per pair of single persons of the same gender between 12 and 17 years of age, one room for each single person between 12 and 17 years of age and not included in the previous category, and one room per pair of children under 12 years of age.

With the SILC survey for 2011 the methodology of calculating the indicator changed, so the data from 2011 on are not comparable with the data for the previous years. Until 2010 a kitchen was not counted as a room, whereas from 2011 on a kitchen is counted as a room if it measures at least 6 square metres and the household uses it as a dining room, a living room, a study, etc.

YEAR

The data published for the last year are provisional, while the data for all previous years are final. The data published for the last year become final with the publishing of the data for the next year.