At-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) rate indicator - Revised definition
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| Indicator name |
At-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion (AROPE) rate - Revised definition |
| Type (EU indicator/ NAT - national indicator) |
EU |
| Periodicity |
Annual |
| Detailed definition |
The revised definition of this indicator is:
Percentage, in total population, of the persons who are at risk of poverty (after social transfers) and/or severely materially and socially deprived and/or living in a (quasi-)jobless household. Persons are only counted once even if they are present in two or all the three dimensions.
In 2021, EU Member States and the European Commission decided to revise the definition of AROPE, with the severe material and social deprivation sub-indicator replacing the severe material deprivation sub-indicator and with the (quasi-)jobless households sub-indicator being slightly revised . They also agreed that AROPE should always be analysed jointly with the three sub-indicators. |
| Breakdowns |
-By age and gender (breakdown covers all ages)
-By age, gender and most frequent activity status (for people aged 18 or above)
-By income quintile and household type
-By age, gender and educational attainment level (for people aged 18 or above)
-By age, gender and broad group of citizenship (for people aged 18 or above)
-By age, gender and broad group of country of birth (for people aged 18 or above)
-By age, gender and level of activity limitation (for people aged 18 or above)
-By housing tenure status
-By NUTS regions
-By degree of urbanisation
-For children by age and educational attainment level of their parents
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| Comments/ Policy relevance |
The at-risk-of-poverty-or-social-exclusion (AROPE) rate is a multidimensional indicator which reflects the importance of looking at different aspects of poverty and social exclusion. It combines three major dimensions: relative income poverty (using the EU at-risk-of-poverty indicator), enforced lack of socially perceived necessities (severe material and social deprivation) and weak labour market attachment (people living in (quasi-)jobless households).
AROPE (in its former version) was the underlying indicator for the social inclusion headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy. It has been adopted (in its revised version) as the underlying indicator for the EU2030 headline social target, as outlined in the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan.
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| Source |
EU-SILC |
| SPC portfolio section |
Overarching - indicators |
| Key dimension |
The at-risk-of-poverty-or-social-exclusion (AROPE) rate is a multidimensional indicator which reflects the importance of looking at different aspects of poverty and social exclusion. It combines three major dimensions: relative income poverty (using the EU at-risk-of-poverty indicator), enforced lack of socially perceived necessities (severe material and social deprivation) and weak labour market attachment (people living in (quasi-)jobless households). |
| Context of use |
Europe 2030 headline indicator (Risk of poverty or social exclusion). Used in: EPSR scoreboard (headline indicator), SDG indicator framework,SPPM dashboard,JAF.
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| Further details and related documents |
As regards the sub-indicators composing the AROPE indicator:
-A person is at-risk-of-poverty if he/she has an equivalised disposable income (after social transfers) below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, which is set at 60% of the national median equivalised disposable income (after social transfers).(Note: this sub-indicator is unchanged compared to the former version of AROPE.)
- A person is severely materially and socially deprived if he/she cannot afford (enforced lack) at least 7 items out of the 13 MSD items (see MSD indicator)
- A person (only for persons aged 0-64) is living in a (quasi-)jobless household if the working-age persons (aged 18-64 ) in his/her household worked in total 20% or less of their total work potential during the previous 12 months (i.e. household with a very low work intensity : work intensity less than or equal to 0.2).
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