The Socially Excluded in the Netherlands: The Development of an Overall Index

Moniek Coumans () and Hans Schmeets

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2015, vol. 122, issue 3, 779-805

Abstract: This paper focuses on the measurement of social exclusion. As an illustration, we investigate how many people are socially excluded in the Netherlands. The study also inquired about whether social exclusion is correlated with certain background characteristics, such as gender, age, ethnicity and income. We develop an index based on 42 indicators ranging over four dimensions: (1) participation; (2) material deprivation; (3) access to basic rights; and (4) value orientations. The four dimensions were captured by the Dutch 2010 EU-SILC, in which a specific module on social exclusion was added (n = 10,124). A total of 4.2 % of the adult population show very low scores on at least two of the four dimensions, and thus can be considered socially excluded. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Social cohesion; Social exclusion; EU-SILC; Index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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