Transcript APPM November 4th 2009

APPM
November 4th 2009
David Stanton
Chair Indicators sub Group
of
EU Social Protection Committee
Poverty & the OMC
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Agreeing common objectives;
Agreeing a set of common indicators;
Preparing national strategic reports;
Evaluating these strategies jointly with the
European Commission and the Member
States;
Learning from each others through a series of
tools supported by the Commission such as
peer reviews, study programs, networks, etc.
DATA
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EUSILC
Household sample survey but
Denmark, Norway, Iceland,
Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and
Slovenia income and some demographic
data from admin data registers
Cross section and longitudinal
Romania
Bulgaria
Latvia
Italy
Spain
#N/A
United Kingdom
Lithuania
Estonia
Portugal
Ireland
Elderly (65+)
Poland
Total population
Cyprus
35
Germany
Belgium
Malta
Luxembourg
Finland
France
Slovenia
Austria
Hungary
Denmark
Sweden
Slovakia
Netherlands
Czech Republic
30
NMS-10
EU-15
EU-27
% of concerned population
At Risk Poverty Rate EU 27
51% for
elderly in
CY
25
Children (0-17)
20
15
10
5
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0
Bulgaria
Romania
Latvia
Poland
Hungary
Cyprus
Lithuania
Slovakia
Greece
Portugal
Czech Republic
Italy
Estonia
Slovenia
Malta
Germany
Belgium
France
Spain
United Kingdom
80
Value of thresholds for a single household (right axis)
60
12000
50
40
9000
30
6000
20
3000
10
0
In Purchasing Power Standards
70
Ireland
Austria
Finland
Denmark
Sweden
Netherlands
Luxembourg
NMS-10
EU-15
EU-27
% of total population
Material deprivation, at-risk of poverty and poverty thresholds, 2007
18000
At-risk-of-poverty rate (left axis)
Material deprivation rate (left axis)
15000
Belgium
Hungary
Poland
United Kingdom
Romania
Bulgaria
France
Germany
Italy
Finland
Slovakia
Greece
Ireland
Malta
Austria
Adults aged 18-59 (not students)
Luxembourg
Lithuania
Denmark
Latvia
Slovenia
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Spain
Estonia
Portugal
Cyprus
EU-27
% of population concerned
People living in jobless households 2007
18
Children aged 0-17
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Review
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Properly used means too many
indicators: difficult to get message over
in media
Data not timely
How does it fit with social assistance?
At-risk of poverty rate anchored at a point in time (2005) by average GDP growth; 2005-2007
25
2005
2006
2007
20
15
10
5
Average
Average GDP growth between Average GDP growth between
GDP growth
2% and 3%
3% and 5%
below 2%
Latvia
Estonia
Lithuania
Slovakia
Czech
Republic
Ireland
Luxembourg
Poland
Slovenia
Hungary
Greece
Cyprus
Sweden
Finland
Spain
Austria
Denmark
Malta
Belgium
Netherlands
United
Kingdom
France
Germany
Italy
Portugal
EU-25
0
Average GDP growth greater than
5%