Structure of National Perceptions of Social Needs across EU Countries

Autor/inn/en	Dickes, Paul; Fusco, Alessio; Marlier, Eric
Titel	Structure of National Perceptions of Social Needs across EU Countries
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 95 (2010) 1, S.143-167 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-009-9454-5
Schlagwörter	Living Standards; Multidimensional Scaling; Comparative Analysis; Social Indicators; Foreign Countries; Databases; International Cooperation; Economically Disadvantaged + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensstandard; Mehrdimensionale Analysis; Social indicator; Sozialer Indikator; Ausland; Datenbank; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Abstract	Back in 1975, the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers defined the poor as "individuals or families whose resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the Member State in which they live". This widely quoted definition leaves room for discussion about what can be considered a "minimum acceptable way of life" in different countries and thus also whether national perceptions of minimum standards vary from one country to the next. The paper explores this latter issue by exploiting the first EU dataset allowing a comparative analysis of the items which citizens in the different Member States consider to be necessary for people to have an "acceptable" standard of living in the country where they live. It assesses the (in)variance of the structure of the perception of social needs between countries on the basis of an extension of the multidimensional scaling (MDS) method, and shows a high level of congruence between the 27 national patterns. An important consequence of this result is that it supports the approach which consists of measuring deprivation on the basis of a same set of (validated) items across all the Member States. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10