The hard to reach among the poor in Europe: lessons from Eurostat’s EU-SILC survey in Belgium

Nicaise, Idès; Schockaert, Ingrid

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“…Such practices distort the assessment of poverty numbers and question the reliability of the applied methodology. The study shows that two independently surveyed groupshomeless people and undocumented refugees need to be considered as groups most affected by poverty and deprivation [34]. However, the study also shows that the inclusion of these excluded groups requires special methodological attention and sensitivity, on the one hand.…”

Section: Neglected Relevant Futures In Europe: the Case Of Absolute Pmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…None of these people are considered by the measurements of the EU-SILC. Furthermore, an additional 14,300 people (according to outdated and presumably inadequate estimates) live in unofficial accommodation such as tent camps; for the year 2003, FEANTSA, the European Federation of National Organizations Working with the Homeless, estimated the number of homeless people at 17,000; the authors presume that this number has increased considerably since then [34].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Their number is considerable: several hundreds of thousands of people spend night after night in the open, in emergency shelters, at other people's homes, or are placed in homes or institutions. Nicaise and Schockaert estimate, for Belgium, that the lack of representation of this group in the EU-SILC's data lowers the ratio of people at risk of poverty by an extent that lies somewhere between 0.6 and 1.7 % [34]. The Belgian example impressively demonstrates that the EU-SILC ignores and excludes some of those people who are most affected by poverty.…”

Section: Neglected Relevant Futures In Europe: the Case Of Absolute Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the study also shows that the inclusion of these excluded groups requires special methodological attention and sensitivity, on the one hand. On the other, it may reveal especially problematic areas that appear to be relevant for future collections of data, but may also be helpful for the reduction of poverty "on the ground" [34]. The methodological reason for this non-representation cannot be separated from political decisions over certain methodologies of poverty reports.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Neglected futures. Considering overlooked poverty in Europe

Gaisbauer

Sedmak

2014

Eur J Futures Res

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With poverty reduction being one of the five targets of the EU 2020 process, poverty is currently high on the agenda for the European Union and the 27 Member States. The applied methodology of measuring poverty and social exclusion (EU-SILC) calls for critical reflection, because it systematically overlooks absolute or extreme forms of poverty. Thus, the most vulnerable remain invisible. This fact poses a major challenge for future planning and the future of social policies. This article proposes an understanding of poverty as restricted access to relevant futures: a deprivation of access to possibilities and chances. Following this, we argue that "invisible" persons living in conditions of severe poverty are forced into horizons of damaged futures. Furthermore, a failure to "see" these forms of poverty has an impact on the already limited future prospects of these groups on yet another level. The most vulnerable, such as homeless children, undocumented refugees and asylum seekers, migrant beggars and other homeless people, are excluded from both analysis and social policies. This can be regarded as a second-order methodological neglect of relevant futures. Overcoming such second-order neglect is a necessary and first step towards establishing choices about relevant futures for these persons. There is a moral as well as an epistemic responsibility vis-à-vis those "invisible" groups. This is the basis for alleviating conditions of access to relevant futures. The article concludes with a plea for a "visibilization" of non-targeted and unperceived poor persons living in extreme poverty in Europe. Keywords Absolute poverty. Relative poverty. Social exclusion. Capabilities. EU-SILC. EU 2020 targets There are some who are in darkness And the others are in light And you see the ones in brightness Those in darkness drop from sight Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera This article is part of the Topical Collection on The Future of Europe, guest-edited by Markus Pausch.

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Section: Neglected Relevant Futures In Europe: the Case Of Absolute Pmentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Neglected Relevant Futures In Europe: the Case Of Absolute Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Neglected Relevant Futures In Europe: the Case Of Absolute Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Neglected Relevant Futures In Europe: the Case Of Absolute Pmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Neglected futures. Considering overlooked poverty in Europe

Gaisbauer

Sedmak

2014

Eur J Futures Res

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“…Through anecdotal evidence, Abbott and Compton also identify illegal immigrants, boarders/lodgers, the homeless, those with disabilities, and institutionalized populations (i.e., in the armed forces or in prison; see also Abrams, 2010). 2 Nicaise and Schockaert (2014) identify single parents, immigrants, tenants, and inner city inhabitants as hard-to-reach. Glasser et al (2014) highlight those whose residences are in flux as hard to reach, particularly the homeless, as well as renters, young men, and immigrants.…”

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Reaching the Hard to Reach with Intermediaries: The Kansas City Fed’s LMI Survey

Edmiston¹

2018

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Reaching hard-to-reach individuals is a common problem in survey research. The low-and moderate-income (LMI) population, for example, is generally hard to reach. The Kansas City Fed's Low-and Moderate-Income Survey addresses this problem by sampling a database of organizations to serve as proxies for the LMI population. In this paper, I describe why the LMI population can be hard to reach. I then explore potential problems with using a nonrandom survey sample and address the empirical validity of the Kansas City Fed's LMI Survey. I compare results from the survey using the standard sample to results from the survey using a random sample. I find that the results of the surveys using the standard and random samples are not significantly different and conclude that the use of a nonrandom sample is not a significant problem for the LMI Survey.

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Burdens on the gateway to the state: Administrative burdens in the registration of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium and the Netherlands

Robben,

Peeters,

Widlak

2024

J Policy Anal Manage

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Population registries are the gateway to public services, benefits, and rights. However, despite clear formal rules and procedures, people eligible for registration may still face administrative burdens in obtaining access. In this article, we study the case of the municipal registration of people who experience homelessness in Belgium and the Netherlands—a group that typically suffers from administrative vulnerability. Using data from 61 interviews with social workers and civil servants, we find that burdens are constructed at the municipal level to disincentivize homeless people's access to registration. However, using the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework, we also identify mechanisms in the governance of population registrations and the decentralization of social policies that create incentives for strategic behavior by municipal policy makers and street‐level bureaucrats. By analyzing the interaction between multiple institutional levels, we contribute to understanding how structural mechanisms influence policymakers’ agency in the construction of administrative burdens.

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The hard to reach among the poor in Europe: lessons from Eurostat’s EU-SILC survey in Belgium

Cited by 9 publications

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Neglected futures. Considering overlooked poverty in Europe

Neglected futures. Considering overlooked poverty in Europe

Reaching the Hard to Reach with Intermediaries: The Kansas City Fed’s LMI Survey

Burdens on the gateway to the state: Administrative burdens in the registration of people experiencing homelessness in Belgium and the Netherlands

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