%0 Journal Article
%T Material Deprivation in Selected EU Countries According to EU-SILC Income Statistics
%A St¨¢vkov¨¢ Jana
%A Bir£¿iakov¨¢ Na£¿a
%A Tur£¿¨ªnkov¨¢ Jana
%J Journal of Competitiveness
%D 2012
%I Tomas Bata University, Zl¨ªn
%X The article deals with issues of households at risk of poverty in relative conception. Income poverty means a situation when the threshold of 0.6 of median income is not achieved. The analysis of a broader definition of poverty is based on identification and assessment of material deprivation factors, including: financial stress, housing conditions, availability of consumer durables and basic needs. Data sources are based EU-SILC dataset. Presented analysis is focused on selected EU countries, namely Czech Republic, Finland, France, Spain and United Kingdom. The result identifies the problem areas that cause deprivation symptoms.
%K EU-SILC
%K income
%K material deprivation
%K poverty
%U http://www.cjournal.cz/files/101.pdf