Deprivation approach in studying poverty

The paper compares absolute and deprivation approaches to poverty understanding and its estimation. The insufficient development of the methodology for calculating the level of deprivation poverty in both Rosstat and Eurostat is shown. According to the results of 2018, using microdata from a Rosstat survey of household budgets, a different, slightly overlapping monetary and deprivation poverty group structure was established, and a weak dependence of the deprivation level on income was shown. It was also established that some of the monetary poverty factors (household size, number of children in a family) are not the factors of deprivation poverty. The prevalence of deprivation poverty was estimated, including in various socio-demographic population groups and also in comparing urban and rural areas. The data on the greatest risk of deprivation of the population living in households of single, disabled, unemployed retired people was collected, and conclusions about the influence of the socio-psychological factor on the subjective perception of deprivation were made.