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.
Urban settlement – a city, a city without municipal status or town. Rural settlement – a small town or a village.
Unit: percent
Disaggregated by: year, type of household, type of settlement
Source: Statistics Estonia, Estonian Social Survey (ESS)
Year | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Type of household | Type of settlement | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||||||||
Single parent with one or more dependent children | Urban settlements | 37,2 | 37,3 | 34,4 | 34,7 | 31,9 | 26,7 | 25,4 | 33 | 32,8 | ||||||||||
Single parent with one or more dependent children | Rural settlements | 46,4 | 54,1 | 46,6 | 44,1 | 41,7 | 50,1 | 48,4 | 51 | 46,5 |