Home (Eurostat)
English
Select your language
Disclaimer

This is a machine translation provided by the European Commission’s eTranslation service to help you understand this page. Please read the conditions of use.

Statistics Explained

Glossary:Inability to keep the house adequately warm

Print this page

The indicator Inability to keep the house adequately warm measures the share of population living in private households who are unable to afford to keep the home adequately warm, regardless of whether the household actually needs to keep it adequately warm.

The main variable used to compute this indicator, HH050 – “Ability to keep home adequately warm”, is collected annually as part of the European statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC. This variable is also considered as one of the household deprivation items to compute the severe material and deprivation rate

Related concepts

Statistical data