Prague, Feb 4 (CTK) – One in ten Czechs (9.8 percent) were threatened by income poverty in 2015, according to the preliminary results of a Czech Statistical Office (CSU) survey carried out last spring.
The CSU set the poverty line at a monthly income of 10,240 crowns for individuals, at 15,359 crowns for an adult couple, at 21,503 crowns for a couple with two children below the age of 13.
In the long term, 9 to 10 percent of people in the Czech Republic face income poverty.
Last year, 1.45 million people faced social exclusion, or 13.7 percent of the population. In 2014, it was 14.9 percent. This makes the Czech Republic one of the countries with the lowest portion of people facing social exclusion in Europe.
Material deprivation was faced by 5.2 percent of Czechs, concerning those who could not afford at least four of the following – a phone, a washing machine, a TV, a car, sufficient heating, a one-week holiday annually, an unexpected expense of 9700 crowns, paying the rent, eating meat three times a week.
