LIVING CONDITIONS IN ROMANIA IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT. STATISTICS ON REVENUE DISTRIBUTION, MATERIAL DEPRIVATION AND ECONOMIC STRAIN

Abstract

How can we define living conditions? How can we build a map that reflects as accurately as possible their relief elements? Could it be built? In general, in any process of measuring the quality of life, both “objective indicators” and “subjective  indicators” are used. If the first describes the “state of life” (living conditions), the others are the result of a process of evaluating it, a “perception filtered through expectations, aspirations, values.” The present article does not propose an  exhaustive description of the quality of life, but rather build a comprehensive picture of the living conditions in Romania in a European context, using statistical data related to the living conditions of the Romanian population. Practically, we try to  capture  different aspects of Romanians’ lives by using socio-economic indicators that affect their daily lives. In this case, income, poverty and social exclusion and material deprivation. Aspects of life that contribute to a certain extent to increasing of the  migration phenomenon in the recent years.