Tenants at-risk-of-poverty induced by housing expenditure – exploratory analyses with EU-SILC

Combating poverty and social exclusion is a core policy issue in the European Union (EU). The Statis-tics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database facilitates analyses of the extent of poverty and social exclusion. One of the indicators built from the database is the at-risk-of-poverty indicator. Applied to households, it indicates...

Measuring housing system performance: Is a composite indicator a useful instrument?

Housing outcomes are predominantly compared in terms of individual indicators, in-cluding such items as quality or affordability measures, where the outcomes of the individual measures are often not linked in a preceding research step. However, the creation of a composite indicator of housing outcomes, in which these individual measures are...

A systematic worldwide landcover of satellite mosaics

The gap between the number of detailed satellite images (of e.g. Landsat) recorded and the number actually used is increasing rather than decreasing. A major cause for limited use of potentially available imagery is the cost. A complete range of national, continental and worldwide applications has not developed for that reason. A sketch is made...