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