Administrative poverty rate of 25-44 year olds

Equivalent administrative disposable income is a third pillar of the income statistics that Statbel publishes, alongside tax revenues and poverty indicators based on https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/menages/poverty-and-living-conditions…, and allows answering other types of questions than SILC and tax statistics. SILC uses disposable income at the household level as a concept of income, by aggregating the incomes of all members of the household. In the next step, this disposable income is converted into equivalised disposable income to take into account the composition of the household. Based on the SILC, at-risk-of-poverty figures are published up to the provincial level. However, the sample size does not allow for analyses at a more detailed geographical level. However, statistics based on tax revenues are available up to the level of the statistical sector, but are limited to taxable income in the context of personal income tax returns. Non-taxable income is not taken into account and there is also no correction according to the composition of the household. The variable "equivalent administrative disposable income" responds to a growing demand for local income and poverty figures. It uses an income concept based on administrative sources that tries to correspond as much as possible to that of SILC. For the population as a whole, both taxable and non-taxable income are taken into account. They are added together for all members of the household in order to obtain an administrative disposable income for the household. Then, they are adjusted to the size of the household so as to take into account the economies of scale resulting from living together. Concretely, the administrative disposable income of the household is divided by the number of consumption units of the household to obtain the equivalent administrative disposable income. The number of consumption units is defined by counting 1 for the first adult, 0.5 for other adults and 0.3 for children under 14 years of age. This equivalent administrative disposable income is an indicator of people's standard of living. It is used to calculate medians, quartiles and the administrative poverty rate. The latter is the proportion of the population whose income is less than 60% of the median equivalised administrative disposable income of Belgium. It should be noted that these indicators are always calculated for individuals (not households), even if incomes are measured at the household level. Some households whose income is unknown are excluded from the calculations. Indicators are not disseminated for an entity and a category when there are at least 15% of people whose equivalent administrative disposable income is missing or when there are less than 100 people with a valid income. More information on the dedicated page of Statbel