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Theme 2 Poverty and Social Exclusion Ian
Dennis Coordinator of the workgroup on poverty
and social exclusion Eurostat, Unit
D2 Jean-Maurice Frère Belgian Federal Planning
Bureau, Task Force on Sustainable Development
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• Purpose
• Review proposed indicators for theme Poverty
  Social Exclusion.
• Approach
• Brief general presentation.
• Context
• History
• Content
• Reply of the disputant
• Round table debate
• Conclusions

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• General remarks Context
• Profile of IPSE and Soc.Prot. statistics
  remains high and continues to grow.
• Within EU, big impetus from Lisbon process
  (2000) and the Open Method of Coordination (OMC)
  in the field of social inclusion.
• Intention Steps must be taken to make a
  decisive impact on the eradication of poverty
  (Lisbon 2000)
• Target set national targets for significantly
  reducing the number of people at risk of poverty
  and social exclusion by 2010. (Spring summits of
  2002 and 2003)

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• General remarks Context
• OMC
• Jointly define IPSE
• Learn from national experiences
• Jointly assess progress towards commonly defined
  goals
• Now streamlining with employment, health, etc
• Work of the Indicators Sub-group (ISG) of the
  Social Protection Committee (SPC)

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• General remarks Context
• Within Eurostat,
• re-launch IPSE WP 1998,
• launch Survey on Income and Living Conditions
  (replaces European Community Household Panel
  1994-2001)
• Key proposals
• Eurostat Statistics in Focus
• Laeken portfolio (2001),
• Structural indicators
• Indicators of the National Action Plans on
  social inclusion 2003
• Joint Inclusion Report of the Council and the
  Commission of 2004.

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• General remarks History (SDI)
• Task force coordination by Env.Stats., unit E5.
  
• Eurostat unit D2 represents Soc.Stats..
• Approach taken profit from experience and
  results of work of SPC.ISG, complemented as
  necessary.
• E5 proposed themes June 2003 D2 coordinated
  response.
• D2 coordinated proposal for indicator structure
  November 2003. Principal source OMC Social
  Inclusion.
• Broad agreement slight further discussion
  January 2004

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• General remarks Content (SDI)
• SDI themes and sub-themes are in line with ISG
  proposals and in particular Laeken portfolio,
  although structure varies.
• Recognise multidimensionality.
  Risk-of-monetary-poverty rate as headline
  indicator, but balanced portfolio...
• Various analyses of relative monetary poverty.
• Dynamics of poverty are key, but data
  limitations.
• Current ECHP definition of income will improve
• Role of employment as route out of poverty. See
  also economic theme.
• Education, housing, health and other aspects

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Level 1 At-risk-of-poverty rate
Level 2
MONETARY POVERTY Persistent at-risk-of-poverty
rate
ACCESS TO LABOUR MARKET Long-term unemployment
rate
OTHER ASPECTS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION Early school
leavers not in further education or training
Level 3
MONETARY POVERTY 5 indicators 3 indicators
to be developed
ACCESS TO EDUCATION 2 indicators ACCESS TO
HOUSING 1 indicators 2 indicators to be
developed
ACCESS TO LABOUR MARKET 4 indicators
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Level 1 At-risk-of-poverty rate (total
population) Share of persons with an
equivalised disposable income below 60 of the
national equivalised median income. Equivalised
median income is defined as the household's total
disposable income divided by its "equivalent
size", to take account of the size and
composition of the household, and is attributed
to each household member.
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Level 2 MONETARY POVERTY Persistent
at-risk-of-poverty rate Share of persons with an
equivalised disposable income below the
risk-of-poverty threshold in the current year and
in at least two of the preceding three years. The
threshold is set at 60 of the national median
equivalised disposable income.
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• Level 3 MONETARY POVERTY
• At-risk-of-poverty rate, by gender and age group
  (including group aged 0-15)
• Median relative at-risk-of-poverty gap
• Illustrative value of at-risk-of-poverty
  threshold in PPS
• At-risk-of-poverty rate anchored at a point in
  time
• Gini coefficient or s80/s20 income quintile share
  ratio
• To be developed
• (Gender pay gap)
• (Poverty mobility i.e. probability to enter or
  exit poverty)
• (an indicator of distribution of wealth)

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Level 2 ACCESS TO LABOUR MARKET Long-term
unemployment rate Long-term unemployed (12
months and more) persons are those aged at least
15 years not living in collective households who
are without work within the next two weeks, are
available to start work within the next two weeks
and who are seeking for a work (have actively
sought employment at some time during the
previous four weeks or are not seeking a job
because have already found a job to start later).
The total active population (labour force) is the
total number of the employed and unemployed
population. The duration of unemployment is
defined as the duration of a search for a job or
as the length of the period since the last job
was held (if this period is shorter than the
duration of search for a job).
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• Level 3 ACCESS TO LABOUR MARKET
• Very long-term unemployment rate
• Long-term unemployment rate, by citizenship
• Jobless households
• In-work risk-of-poverty rate

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Level 2 OTHER ASPECTS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION
Early school leavers not in further education
or training Early school leavers refers to
persons aged 18 to 24 in the following two
conditions the highest level of education or
training attained is ISCED 0, 1 or 2 and
respondents declared not having received any
education or training in the four weeks preceding
the survey (numerator). The denominator consists
in of the total population of the same age group,
excluding no answers to the questions "highest
level of education or training attained" and
"participation to education and training". Both
the numerators and the denominators come from the
EU Labour Force Survey
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• Level 3 OTHER ASPECTS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION
• ACCESS TO EDUCTATION
• Low educational attainment (age 25-34 and 55-64)
• At-risk-of-poverty rate by educational attainment
  level
• ACCES TO HOUSING
• Proportion of population living in household
  suffering two or more of the following noise,
  shortage of space, accommodation too dark,
  pollution, crime in area
• To be developed
• (access to affordable health care)
• (access to affordable mobility)

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ACTION Delegates are invited to take note of
planned work in the field of IPSE for the coming
year.