Istat, in 2014 more than 4 million people in absolute poverty, given stable – Reuters Italy

       

ROME (Reuters) – In 2014 the incidence of absolute poverty in Italy has remained stable over the previous year after two years of statistically significant, according to the Istat annual report spread this morning.

       

Last year, families and individuals in absolute poverty – where the threshold is the minimum expenditure needed to acquire the goods and services included in a basket – were respectively 1.470000000 (5.7% of resident households ) and 4,102,000 (6.8% of the resident population).

       

It improves the situation of couples with children (including those who have two the incidence of absolute poverty going from 8.6% to 5.9%), households headed by a person aged 45 to 54 years (from 7.4% to 6%) and those headed by a person seeking employment (from 23.7% to 16.2%) “as a result of the fact that more often, compared to 2013, these families internally employed or retired from work, “says a note.

       

Absolute poverty is substantially stable even looking at results by region: 4.2% in the North, 4.8% in Central Italy, and 8.6% in the South where, however, despite the decline (from 12.1 to 9, 2%), it remains almost double in small towns than that observed in the metropolitan areas of the same division.

       

The incidence of absolute poverty is then higher among families with foreigners than those consisting of only Italian, “from 4.3% of the latter (a slight improvement to 5.1% in 2013) to 12, 9% for mixed families up to 23.4% for those made up of only foreigners. “

       

As the absolute, even relative poverty – whose threshold for a family of two components is equal to the average expenditure per person in the country, with 1,042 Euros in 2014 – “is stable and involves, in 2014, 10.3 % of families and 12.9% of the residents, for a total of 2 million 654 thousand households and 7 million 815 thousand people. “

       

The Institute of Statistics points out that the data of today’s report are derived from Household Expenditure Survey, which replaced the previous survey on consumption, and that the changes introduced have made it necessary to reconstruct the time series since 1997.

       

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