Improving the measurement of material deprivation at the European Union level

Guio, Anne-Catherine, Marlier, Eric, Gordon, David, Fahmy, Eldin, Nandy, Shailen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1066-9181 and Pomati, Marco ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3370-2709 2016. Improving the measurement of material deprivation at the European Union level. Journal of European Social Policy 26 (3) , pp. 219-233. 10.1177/0958928716642947

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Abstract

In June 2010, European Union (EU) Heads of State and Government adopted a social inclusion target as part of the new ‘Europe 2020 Strategy’: to lift at least 20 million people in the EU from the risk of poverty and exclusion by 2020. One of the three indicators used to monitor progress towards this target is the EU indicator of severe material deprivation (MD). A main limitation of this indicator is the weak reliability of some of the items it is based on. For this reason, a thematic module on MD was included in the 2009 wave of the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey. This article assesses the 2009 EU-SILC MD data and proposes an analytical framework for developing robust EU MD indicators. It carries out a systematic item by item analysis at both EU and country levels to identify the MD items which satisfactorily meet suitability, validity, reliability and additivity criteria across the EU. This approach has resulted in a proposed 13-item MD indicator covering some key aspects of living conditions which are customary across the whole EU covering a broad range of basic (food, clothes, shoes, etc.) as well as social (Internet, regular leisure activities, etc.) necessities.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	EU-SILC, Europe 2020, material deprivation, poverty, social indicators
Publisher:	SAGE
ISSN:	0958-9287
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	29 June 2017
Last Modified:	21 Nov 2024 01:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/95037

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