Relative poverty gap
The relative poverty gap provides information on how far the median of net equivalent income of people threatened by poverty from the poverty line is located.
The poverty gap is the difference between the median of the net equivalent income (mean net equivalent income) of the population at risk of poverty and the poverty risk line, i.e. the distance between the middle (median) of people considered poor and the poverty line above which a person is considered (relatively) poor. If you put this difference in relation to the poverty risk line ( quotient ), you get the “relative poverty gap”.
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Statistical Office: Income poverty. In: Economic calculations. Sample of income and expenditure. Distribution of income in Germany. P. 15. Fachserie 15, Issue 6, Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden 2012.