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COVID-19 lockdown and housing deprivation across European countries
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Abstract Housing deprivation is a key determinant of the capacity to prevent infection and to recover from a disease because poor housing prevents adequate sheltering during a quarantine. We analyze the degree of housing deprivation faced by households in European countries when COVID-19 lockdown measures we... view more
Housing deprivation is a key determinant of the capacity to prevent infection and to recover from a disease because poor housing prevents adequate sheltering during a quarantine. We analyze the degree of housing deprivation faced by households in European countries when COVID-19 lockdown measures were enacted. To do so, we propose a synthetic measure that includes more dimensions than the official Eurostat indicator of severe housing deprivation. We use a fuzzy set approach to measure housing deprivation so that, unlike traditional deprivation approaches, based on a dichotomous variable, we can identify different degrees of housing deprivation for each household in the population. We find similar orderings of housing deprivation dimensions by country with the highest degree of deprivation in the living space dimension and the lowest one in the standard housing or technology deprivation dimension. Nonetheless, housing deprivation levels differ across countries, with Eastern European households being significantly more housing deprived than the rest when the lockdown began. This result shows that the effects of the lockdown on social well-being have not affected all Europeans equally and emphasizes the need for government measures that promote decent housing.... view less
Keywords
residential behavior; housing conditions; social isolation; deprivation; contagious disease; illness; welfare; Europe; Eastern Europe; regional difference; well-being; epidemic
Classification
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Social Problems
Free Keywords
Corona; COVID-19; Coronavirus; lockdown; housing deprivation; fuzzy sets; EU-SILC 2019
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-9
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, 298 (2022)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114839
ISSN
1873-5347
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0