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[C] - Relative poverty
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Description
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The ISTAT estimate of the relative poverty is based on a poverty line (International Standard of Poverty Line - ISPL) defining as poor a household of two components with a consumption expenditure level lower or equal to the mean per-capita consumption expenditure. To define the relative poverty line for different household sizes an equivalence scale is used (Carbonaro equivalence scale) to take into account different needs and economies/diseconomies of scale that can be achieved in bigger/smaller households. To summarise information on different poverty aspects (spread, gravity) two indices are calculated. The first is the proportion of poors (incidence), that is the ratio between the number of households (individuals) in poverty and the number of resident households (individuals). The second is the mean poverty gap (intensity), measuring 'how poors are the poors', that is, in percentage terms, the difference between the mean consumption expenditures of poor households and the poverty line. Starting from the year 2022, due to the changes that affected the Household Budget Survey (COICOP 2018 classification) it has been necessary to reconstruct relative poverty time series since 2014. Time comparisons between 2022 estimates and previously disseminated estimates can be made only using reconstructed data.
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Eurostat type of process classification
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Statistical compilation other than National Account
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First production year
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2014
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