At-risk-of-poverty rate by type of household: adult and child(ren). The share of single parents with an equalised yearly disposable income lower than the at-risk-of-poverty threshold.
Household – a group of persons living in the common main dwelling (at the same address), who share joint financial and/or food resources and whose members consider themselves to belong to the same household. Household can also consist of one member only.
Adult and child(ren) – household consisting of one adult and at least one dependent child.
Dependent child – a household member aged 0–17 (as at 1 January of the reference year) or a household member aged 18–24 who is economically inactive and living with at least one parent.
At-risk-of-poverty rate – share of persons with an equalised yearly disposable income lower than the at-risk-of-poverty threshold.
At-risk-of-poverty threshold – 60% of the median equalised yearly disposable income of household members.
Equalised income – total household income, which is divided by a sum of equivalence scales of all household members.
Head of the household – the household member with the largest long-term contribution to the household’s income.
Unit: percent
Disaggregated by: year, type of household, head of the household's gender
Source: Statistics Estonia, Estonian Social Survey (ESS)
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Gender | Type of household | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |||||||
Male | Single parent with one or more dependent children | 26,1 | 46,9 | 41,8 | 52,8 | 56,2 | 34 | 37,6 | 55,4 | 34,5 | 45,2 | - | 24,9 | |||||||
Female | Single parent with one or more dependent children | 40,7 | 41,8 | 37,3 | 35,4 | 33,3 | 33,7 | 31,6 | 33,8 | 37,4 | 37,6 | 34,9 | 28,7 |