RT Journal Article
T1 COVID-19 Lockdown and Housing Deprivation Across European Countries.
A1 Ayala Cañón, Luis
A1 Bárcena-Martín, Elena María
A1 Cantó, Olga
A1 Navarro, Carolina
K1 COVID-19 - Aspectos sociales
K1 Vivienda
K1 Conjuntos difusos
K1 Confinamiento (Política sanitaria)
AB Housing deprivation is a key determinant of the capacity to prevent infection and to recover from a diseasebecause poor housing prevents adequate sheltering during a quarantine. We analyze the degree of housingdeprivation faced by households in European countries when COVID-19 lockdown measures were enacted. To doso, we propose a synthetic measure that includes more dimensions than the official Eurostat indicator of severehousing deprivation. We use a fuzzy set approach to measure housing deprivation so that, unlike traditionaldeprivation approaches, based on a dichotomous variable, we can identify different degrees of housing deprivationfor each household in the population. We find similar orderings of housing deprivation dimensions bycountry with the highest degree of deprivation in the living space dimension and the lowest one in the standardhousing or technology deprivation dimension. Nonetheless, housing deprivation levels differ across countries,with Eastern European households being significantly more housing deprived than the rest when the lockdownbegan. This result shows that the effects of the lockdown on social well-being have not affected all Europeansequally and emphasizes the need for government measures that promote decent housing.
PB Elsevier
YR 2022
FD 2022-02-20
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31315
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31315
LA eng
NO Ayala Cañon, L., Bárcena Martín, E., Navarro, C. Cantó, O. COVID-19 Lockdown and Housing Deprivation Across European Countries Social Science & Medicine, 298: 114839
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026