7.3.2 Population living in relative poverty by sex

The line of poverty: threshold in contrast with the consumption expenditure by which the households are classified in category of poor households and the ones that are not poor. Relative line of poverty is set at 60% of median of equalized monthly consumption expenditure. The equivalent consumption expenditure of the household: monthly expenditure divided by equivalent size of the household according to so called „modified equivalence scale – OECD“ (the scale of equivalence gives a weight 1,0 to the head of the household, 0,5 to other members aged 14 and over and 0,3 t every child under the age of 14).

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