Subsistence and welfare » At-risk-of-poverty rate of households with three or more children : At-risk-of-poverty rate of families with three or more children by ethnic nationality of household

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
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