{"id":25368,"date":"2024-07-03T19:50:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/?p=25368"},"modified":"2024-07-04T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T08:51:11","slug":"84000-people-experience-deprivation-in-estonia-what-does-this-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-49\/84000-people-experience-deprivation-in-estonia-what-does-this-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"84,000 people experience deprivation in Estonia. What does this mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to Statistics Estonia, 6.2% of the population, or nearly 84,000 people in Estonia, feel deprived. Deprivation is one of the facets of poverty, which is based on the assessment of a person themselves. According to the social study of 2023, every sixth person living in relative poverty felt deprivation. <\/span><\/p>\n

The deprivation rate indicates the proportion of people who cannot afford at least five of the following 13 components:<\/p>\n

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  1. paying rent and utility costs on time;<\/li>\n
  2. keeping home sufficiently warm;<\/li>\n
  3. covering of unforeseen expenses;<\/li>\n
  4. eating meat or fish or food containing equivalent proteins every second day;<\/li>\n
  5. week-long vacation away from home;<\/li>\n
  6. car;<\/li>\n
  7. replacing of worn or damaged furniture;<\/li>\n
  8. replacing of worn clothes with new ones;<\/li>\n
  9. at least two pairs of outdoor footwear in good condition and suitable for our climate;<\/li>\n
  10. spending even a small amount of money on oneself every week;<\/li>\n
  11. regular participation in some paid leisure activities;<\/li>\n
  12. getting together with friends or relatives at least once a month to eat and drink together;<\/li>\n
  13. using the internet at home for private purposes, if necessary.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    People aged 65 and over were the most likely to feel deprived (8.4%), while 16\u201324 year olds were the least likely (3.5%). Among households, single-parent households with children are the most likely to feel deprived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    According to Statistics Estonia, 6.2% of the population, or nearly 84,000 people in Estonia, feel deprived. Deprivation is one of the facets of poverty, which is based on the assessment of a person themselves. According to the social study of 2023, every sixth person living in relative poverty felt deprivation. The deprivation rate indicates the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"class_list":["post-25368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-49","topic-varia-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25369,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25368\/revisions\/25369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}