Living conditions Stavanger: Children in low-income households EU50

All data sets that form the basis for the survey of living conditions have a title beginning with Levekår Stavanger: EU50: The annual low-income limit is set equal to 50 % of the median income after tax per unit of consumption. When calculating persistent low income over a period of three years, the low-income limit is set at 50 or 60 per cent of the median average over the three-year period. In calculating persistent low income over a four-year period, persons below the annual low-income threshold are considered below the low-income threshold for at least two of the previous three years as persons with persistent low income. Income after tax per unit of consumption is equal to the sum of the household’s taxable and tax-free income, deducted tax, divided by the number of consumption units in the household. The number of consumption units is calculated using the EU equivalence scale, where first adults gain weight equal to 1, the next adult weight equal to 0.5, while each child gain weight equal to 0.3. A household of two adults and two children thus has 2.1 consumption units according to the EU scale.