2023-07-20 18:55:00
Insee is publishing this Thursday a study on the proportion of people in a situation of material and social deprivation will increase in 2022. The share of the population concerned has never been so large since the implementation of the indicator in 2013.
This Thursday, INSEE publishes a study on the share of people in a situation of material and social deprivation. In 2022, nearly 14% of people are affected. This proportion has reached its highest level since 2013, when the first measurement was made.
INSEE identifies with this data, people who cannot cover the expenses related to at least five elements of everyday life among thirteen criteria, among which we find the impossibility of heating the home sufficiently, to buy new clothes, or even the impossibility of paying for a week of vacation in the year. If in 2021, the indicator was at its lowest level due to the confinements and restrictions put in place during the year 2020 which “had then affected the lifestyles and consumption of the population […] and thereby eased the constraints on household spending”, the trend has since reversed.
Difficulties related to heating housing on the rise
Between 2014 and 2021, 5 to 7% of French people living in a household that did not have the financial means to heat their home properly. That figure rises to 10%, according to the report. This increase is certainly linked to the rise in energy prices last winter, “and in particular that of domestic fuel oil, a heating fuel that vulnerable households use more than others”, underlines INSEE.
Single-parent families and large families more at risk
Single-parent families and large families are also more exposed to the risk of material deprivation. As the report states: last year, “three out of ten people living in single-parent families were in a situation of material and social deprivation, and two out of ten people in couples with three or more children”.
The disparities also concern the inhabitants of rural and urban communes of intermediate density. In these living areas, energy expenditure is higher and “the frequency of situations of material and social deprivation increases markedly compared to 2020.” Conversely, in large urban centers, the trend has been downward since 2020.
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