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At-risk-of-poverty rate. By composition of household

Poverty risk rate. By composition of household Catalonia
2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
Households without dependent children (1)
Single person 20.9 22.5 28.1 28.7 30.4 28.3 33.3
Under 65 years 25.9 21.3 21.6 17.6 21.0 13.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
65 or above 14.2 24.3 36.1 41.4 41.4 46.4 51.7
With two adults 13.1 13.5 14.5 17.0 17.7 21.3 18.6
Under 65 years 14.7 10.7 10.8 11.7 10.4 12.8 11.7
With at least one person 65 or above 10.8 17.5 19.3 23.8 27.2 31.9 26.9
Other households without dependent children 10.6 13.3 19.7 9.2 10.6 11.6 11.0
Households with dependent children
One adult with one or more dependent children 45.7 29.2 46.6 40.9 48.0 33.2 41.6
Two adults with one or more dependent children 23.6 27.2 21.3 21.7 16.4 17.0 21.0
With one dependent child 14.0 16.4 20.2 20.8 12.4 11.5 14.2
With two dependent children 19.0 24.0 17.8 17.6 15.8 17.8 23.3
With three or more dependent children 61.6 64.1 47.5 60.3 45.7 37.4 35.5
Other households with dependent children 31.2 21.1 18.2 15.3 12.8 19.6 17.9
Total 20.1 20.5 19.9 18.4 16.6 18.2 19.0
Units: Per cent.
Source: Idescat, based on data from the INE's Survey of living conditions.
Notes:
(1) Until the year 2007, people aged less than 16 years and people between 16 and 24 years that live with at least one of their parents and that are not economically active. From the year 2008, people aged less than 18 years and people between 18 and 24.
The data corresponding to the years 2004-2010 are pending revision with the updated reference populations, from the Population and Housing Census 2011.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: March 19, 2014.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Dependent children
People aged less than 16 years and people between 16 and 24 years that live with at least one of their parents and that are not economically active. From the year 2008, people aged less than 18 years and people between 18 and 24 that live with at least one of their parents and that are not economically active.
Risk of poverty
A population at risk of poverty is characterised by its income being lower than that which is considered the average living level for the society in which it resides. The threshold is established on the basis of an analysis of the distribution of income by all households and the population that is the object of study, and is fixed at 60 per cent of the median income that is available annually to people. The risk rate is the percentage number of people that are below this threshold.

Methodological aspects

The Survey on Living Conditions is an annual survey conducted by the INE since 2004 with a two-fold purpose:

  • to provide information on personal income distribution through net annual income.
  • to measure the incidence and composition of poverty by setting up an at-risk-of-poverty threshold.

The data for Catalonia comes from the Survey on Living Conditions. This is an annual statistical operation of INE, which Idescat uses to make a specific application of the results for Catalonia.

From 2016, as the result of an agreement signed with the INE to improve this statistic, Idescat carries out its own field work to extend the Survey with information from more than 1,700 households; this means that the sample now includes more than 3,000 households and 7,300 individuals. Furthermore, it allows the dissemination of results for Catalonia, the territorial areas, Barcelona city and Barcelona Metropolitan Area. The main objective of this extension is to improve the statistical validity of the results.

In order to measure the risk of poverty of the population, a specific at-risk-of-poverty threshold is presented for Catalonia. The population is classified according to this threshold, and the incidence, composition and intensity of poverty are studied with regard to this classification.

As of 2021, the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion rate (AROPE Rate - EU 2030 Target) rate was subject to a methodological change that affects two of its three components, namely low work intensity and severe material and social deprivation, while the poverty rate is the only component that has not been modified.

The survey gathers annual information on the household and provides information on the physical and social environment, the condition and type of home, the tenancy system and monthly expenditures.

From 2013 onwards, a change was introduced in methodology which consists of using administrative sources to ascertain the personal income variable. Due to this change there will be a break in the series, since the income data from the 2013 survey is not comparable to data published in previous years. For this reason, retrospective estimates have been made for the main indicators since 2009 that are comparable with the 2013 data.

You can get more information about these statistics in the methodology.