Project description DEENESFRITPL Accurate estimates of poverty in EU statistics Income surveys calculate poverty statistics in Europe, but they do not take into account everyone living in poverty. Excluding those not living in private households from the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) limits our ability to study poverty and its causes. Funded by the European Research Council, the WHOCOUNTS project will improve our understanding of poverty in Europe by addressing errors in official EU statistics. It will analyse data from eight European countries, considering demographics, low-income dynamics and policy interventions; the use of adjusted and unadjusted EU-SILC data sets will provide more accurate estimates of poverty levels and nuanced explanations of extreme poverty. WHOCOUNTS will combine multivariate regression techniques and qualitative comparative analysis, using fuzzy set theory. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective A non-trivial minority of the de facto population are currently ‘missing’ from income surveys used to construct official statistics on poverty across Europe. WHOCOUNTS will correct for noncoverage error in official EU statistics to better understand the changing profile, drivers and depth of poverty across Europe. Whilst those living outside of private households are often part of the inferential population in poverty debates, they are not part of the target population and thus sampling frame of European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). This undermines our ability to examine the full incidence, composition and causes of poverty because many of this ‘missing minority’ exhibit some of the worst social outcomes across Europe. Much more than merely technical or pragmatic, such practices reflect a set of theoretical and normative judgments about who counts when it comes to researching poverty and social policy. Through novel analysis of hitherto fragmented data, WHOCOUNTS will re-examine poverty across 8 European countries that differ in their noncoverage, demographics, low-income dynamics, and policy interventions. Drawing on adjusted and unadjusted EU-SILC datasets, this project will improve the accuracy of poverty estimates and nuance explanations of (extreme) poverty across divergent welfare regimes, by complementing multivariate regression techniques with (fuzzy set) qualitative comparative analyses. Capitalising on the analytical potential of set-theoretic approaches, the project will transform our understanding of the overall shape and conjunctural causes of poverty across Europe, providing new and necessary information on the social groups often rendered invisible through official statistics. As such, this project promises a step change in our conceptual, methodological and substantive analysis of (extreme) poverty, and will offer future lessons on how poverty statistics can be improved to support better-informed policy interventions. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiessocial sciencessociologysocial issues Keywords official poverty statistics noncoverage error non-private-household populations qualitative comparative analysis epistemic erasure Programme(s) HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2022-STG - ERC STARTING GRANTS Call for proposal ERC-2022-STG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC Grants Host institution UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA Net EU contribution € 1 499 584,00 Address EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V 08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles Spain See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 499 584,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA Spain Net EU contribution € 1 499 584,00 Address EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V 08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 499 584,00
