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Disability and Poverty in Austrian Households: Analysing the Risk of Experiencing Income Poverty Cover

Disability and Poverty in Austrian Households: Analysing the Risk of Experiencing Income Poverty

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|Dec 2025

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Basic information for Austrian households without a disabled member (N = 3,437) and households with at least one disabled member (N = 2,501).

NOT DISABLEDDISABLEDDIFF.SIG.
Share of households57.88%42.12%15.76 p.p.
At-risk-of-poverty rate11.65%16.81%–5.16 p.p.Chi-squared p-value
< 0.001
Average number of HHMs2.081.980.09t-test
p-value
< 0.01
Average number of children (age 0 to 15) in HH0.410.200.21t-test
p-value
< 0.01
Average age of HHMs46.7557.90–11.15t-test
p-value
< 0.01
Number of observations3,4342,499935

[i] Note: Figures based on EU-SILC 2022 data for Austria; unit of analysis: household.

Table 2

Descriptive statistics of the categorical variables to explain the poverty risk of Austrian households without a disabled member (N = 3,437) and households with at least one disabled member (N = 2,501).

NOT DISABLEDDISABLEDDIFF.SIG.
Work intensity of HH
Full-time/full-time (ref.)15.22%10.52%4.71 p.p.Chi-squared p-value
< 0.01
Full-time/part-time15.28%10.00%5.28 p.p.
Part-time/inactive13.85%30.03%–16.17 p.p.
Part-time/part-time11.50%10.28%1.22 p.p.
Single full-time18.83%6.08%12.75 p.p.
Single part-time5.47%2.32 %3.15 p.p.
Single inactive19.85%30.79%–10.94 p.p.
Education of HH
Primary education (ref.)29.84%47.74%–17.9 p.p.Chi-squared p-value
< 0.01
Secondary22.94%17.33%5.61 p.p.
Secondary, primary15.66%19.05%–3.39 p.p.
Tertiary20.09%7.04%13.04 p.p.
Tertiary, secondary, and/or primary11.47%8.84%2.63 p.p.
Migration background of HH
AUT (ref.)83.85 %81.69 %–1.12 p.p.Chi-squared p-value
< 0.01
AUT and EU/ROW6.98 %7.96 %–0.97 p.p.
EU6.75 %4.64 %2.11 p.p.
ROW (and EU)5.70 %5.72 %–0.02 p.p.
Urban–rural
1 = Vienna23.22 %21.15 %2.07 p.p.Chi-squared p-value
< 0.01
2 = more than 100,000 inhabitants9.98 %7.88 %2.1 p.p.
3 = more than 10,000 inhabitants15.19 %15.67 %–0.49 p.p.
4 = less than 10,000 inhabitants51.62%55.30%–3.68 p.p.

[i] Note: Figures based on EU-SILC 2022 data for Austria; units of analysis: household.

Figure 1

Visualisation of logistic regression analysis of poverty risk for Austrian households based on EU-SILC sample 2022 (for detailed coefficients see Table A.1 in the Appendix).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1241 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011
Language: English
Page range: 684 - 697
Submitted on: Dec 20, 2024
Accepted on: May 29, 2025
Published on: Dec 2, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2025 Angela Wegscheider, Carmen Walenta-Bergmann, published by Stockholm University Press
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