Footnotes

(SILC).

Linked content:
- Methodological explanations

MATERIAL DEPRIVATION STATUS

Material deprivation status indicates whether a person is severe materially deprived or not. Materially deprived persons are those living in households whose living conditions are 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 financial 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.

YEAR

The results of SILC are based on a survey conducted in the beginning of the year and on register and administrative data mostly referring to one year before survey is conducted.

SELF-ASSESSMENT

The data refer to persons aged 16 and over who evaluated or appraised their life taken as a whole on the scale from 0 (Not at all satisfied) to 10 (Completely satisfied).
Some totals do not add up due to rounding.

COHESION REGION

Data are territorially classsified according to The Classification of Territorial Units for Statistics – NUTS, (description and explanations), level NUTS 2.
Data on changes of individual cohesion region are also available at the link.