{"id":29141,"date":"2018-12-27T17:13:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=29141"},"modified":"2018-12-27T17:13:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T15:13:30","slug":"living-conditions-in-europe-material-deprivation-and-economic-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/27\/living-conditions-in-europe-material-deprivation-and-economic-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Living conditions in Europe &#8211; material deprivation and economic strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"499\" data-attachment-id=\"29142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/27\/living-conditions-in-europe-material-deprivation-and-economic-strain\/eu-living-conditions\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EU-Living-Conditions.png?fit=1005%2C760&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1005,760\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"EU Living Conditions\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EU-Living-Conditions.png?fit=660%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EU-Living-Conditions.png?resize=660%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EU-Living-Conditions.png?w=1005&amp;ssl=1 1005w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EU-Living-Conditions.png?resize=500%2C378&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/EU-Living-Conditions.png?resize=768%2C581&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption>Share of population living in households that have difficulty or great difficulty in making ends meet, 2016 (%)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eurostat published <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php\/Living_conditions_in_Europe_-_material_deprivation_and_economic_strain\">the results of the survey<\/a> studying the living conditions across European Union.  The numbers are a couple of years outdated, but I don&#8217;t think things have changed dramatically during this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Cross-country comparisons (see Figure\u00a05) reveal that in 2016 more than half of the population in Croatia (51.4\u00a0%) and <strong>Cyprus (59.8\u00a0%) reported having difficulty or great difficulty in making ends meet<\/strong>, while this share rose to more than three fifths of the population in Bulgaria (61.7\u00a0%) and to more than three quarters of the population in Greece (76.8\u00a0%); more than half the populations of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (55.5\u00a0%; 2015 data) and Serbia (63.9\u00a0%) also faced difficulty or great difficulty in making ends meet.<br>On the other hand, less than 1 in 10 persons in Sweden (7.6\u00a0%), Germany (6.9\u00a0%) and Finland (also 6.9\u00a0%) reported facing difficulty or great difficulty in making ends meet; this was also the case in Norway (5.4\u00a0%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Found via <a href=\"https:\/\/in-cyprus.com\/news\/local\/59-8-of-cypriots-report-difficulty-in-making-ends-meet-eurostat\/\">In-Cyprus.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Eurostat published the results of the survey studying the living conditions across European Union. The numbers are a couple of years outdated, but I don&#8217;t think things have changed dramatically during this time. Cross-country comparisons (see Figure\u00a05) reveal that in 2016 more than half of the population in Croatia (51.4\u00a0%) and Cyprus (59.8\u00a0%) reported having &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/27\/living-conditions-in-europe-material-deprivation-and-economic-strain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living conditions in Europe &#8211; material deprivation and economic strain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Living conditions in Europe - material deprivation and economic strain #EU #Cyprus #economy #stats","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[1593,116,1117,1041],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-29141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","tag-economy","tag-europe","tag-research","tag-statistics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13521,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/03\/welcome-to-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":29141,"position":0},"title":"Welcome to Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I've said it a few times that one of the good things about Cyprus is that there are so many people from so many different cultures living in peace here. \u00a0 But I rarely actually researched how many foreigners are here and from which parts of the world they come.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9290,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/31\/diging-into-cultures\/","url_meta":{"origin":29141,"position":1},"title":"Diging into cultures","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 31, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Lame title, I know, but I couldn't think of a better one and now it's too late. 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