Table A5.
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Material deprivation and subjective index

IndicatorQuestion askedAnswer
Ability to make ends meet indexA household may have different sources of income and more than one household member may contribute to it.

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

Thinking of your household's total monthly or weekly income, is your household able to make ends meet, that is pay your usual expenses… (HS120)

  • with great difficulty

  • with difficulty

  • with some difficulty

  • fairly easily

  • easily

  • very easily

Material deprivation indexLooking at this card, can I just check whether your household could afford the following?

  • To pay for a week's annual holiday away from home? (HS040)

  • To eat meat, chicken or fish (or vegetarian equivalent) every second day? (HS050)

  • To pay an unexpected, but necessary, expense of 500€? (HS060)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

Do you have:

  • a telephone? (HS070)

  • a color TV? (HS080)

  • a computer? (HS090)

  • a wash machine? (HS100)

  • a car? (HS110)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • Can your household afford to keep its home adequately warm? (HH050)

  • Have you got either a bath or a shower for sole use of the household (HH080)

  • Do you have an inside flushing toilet for sole use of the household? (HH090)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

IndicatorQuestion askedAnswer
Ability to make ends meet indexA household may have different sources of income and more than one household member may contribute to it.

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

Thinking of your household's total monthly or weekly income, is your household able to make ends meet, that is pay your usual expenses… (HS120)

  • with great difficulty

  • with difficulty

  • with some difficulty

  • fairly easily

  • easily

  • very easily

Material deprivation indexLooking at this card, can I just check whether your household could afford the following?

  • To pay for a week's annual holiday away from home? (HS040)

  • To eat meat, chicken or fish (or vegetarian equivalent) every second day? (HS050)

  • To pay an unexpected, but necessary, expense of 500€? (HS060)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

Do you have:

  • a telephone? (HS070)

  • a color TV? (HS080)

  • a computer? (HS090)

  • a wash machine? (HS100)

  • a car? (HS110)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • Can your household afford to keep its home adequately warm? (HH050)

  • Have you got either a bath or a shower for sole use of the household (HH080)

  • Do you have an inside flushing toilet for sole use of the household? (HH090)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

Source: SILC.

Notes: Original SILC variables’ identification between brackets. The deprivation index is computed in two steps. First, we add the 11 binary answers to obtain a 0–11 scale. I a second step, we reorder this scale, so that the material deprivation index corresponds to the total number of negative answers to the list of questions.

Table A5.
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Material deprivation and subjective index

IndicatorQuestion askedAnswer
Ability to make ends meet indexA household may have different sources of income and more than one household member may contribute to it.

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

Thinking of your household's total monthly or weekly income, is your household able to make ends meet, that is pay your usual expenses… (HS120)

  • with great difficulty

  • with difficulty

  • with some difficulty

  • fairly easily

  • easily

  • very easily

Material deprivation indexLooking at this card, can I just check whether your household could afford the following?

  • To pay for a week's annual holiday away from home? (HS040)

  • To eat meat, chicken or fish (or vegetarian equivalent) every second day? (HS050)

  • To pay an unexpected, but necessary, expense of 500€? (HS060)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

Do you have:

  • a telephone? (HS070)

  • a color TV? (HS080)

  • a computer? (HS090)

  • a wash machine? (HS100)

  • a car? (HS110)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • Can your household afford to keep its home adequately warm? (HH050)

  • Have you got either a bath or a shower for sole use of the household (HH080)

  • Do you have an inside flushing toilet for sole use of the household? (HH090)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

IndicatorQuestion askedAnswer
Ability to make ends meet indexA household may have different sources of income and more than one household member may contribute to it.

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

Thinking of your household's total monthly or weekly income, is your household able to make ends meet, that is pay your usual expenses… (HS120)

  • with great difficulty

  • with difficulty

  • with some difficulty

  • fairly easily

  • easily

  • very easily

Material deprivation indexLooking at this card, can I just check whether your household could afford the following?

  • To pay for a week's annual holiday away from home? (HS040)

  • To eat meat, chicken or fish (or vegetarian equivalent) every second day? (HS050)

  • To pay an unexpected, but necessary, expense of 500€? (HS060)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

Do you have:

  • a telephone? (HS070)

  • a color TV? (HS080)

  • a computer? (HS090)

  • a wash machine? (HS100)

  • a car? (HS110)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • Can your household afford to keep its home adequately warm? (HH050)

  • Have you got either a bath or a shower for sole use of the household (HH080)

  • Do you have an inside flushing toilet for sole use of the household? (HH090)

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

  • 0–1

Source: SILC.

Notes: Original SILC variables’ identification between brackets. The deprivation index is computed in two steps. First, we add the 11 binary answers to obtain a 0–11 scale. I a second step, we reorder this scale, so that the material deprivation index corresponds to the total number of negative answers to the list of questions.

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