At-risk-of-poverty rate by type of household: couple with three or more children. The share of families with three or more children 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.
Couple with three or more children – household consisting of two adults and at least three dependent children.
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.
Unit: percent
Disaggregated by: year, type of household, ethnic nationality of household
Source: Statistics Estonia, Estonian Social Survey (ESS)
Year | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Type of household | Ethnic nationality of household | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||||||||
Couple with 3 or more dependent children | Estonian | 22,7 | 20,8 | 18,5 | 24 | 16,1 | 19,8 | 16,4 | 14,7 | 19,1 | ||||||||||
Couple with 3 or more dependent children | Mix | 29,7 | 15,3 | - | 16,3 | 15,6 | 20 | - | 38 | 46,7 | ||||||||||
Couple with 3 or more dependent children | Non-estonian | 14,3 | - | 28,4 | 43,6 | 30,5 | 43,6 | 26,6 | 22,5 | 17 |