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Table 2 The impact of COVID-19 on at-risk-of-poverty rates (%).

From: COVID-19 and (gender) inequality in income: the impact of discretionary policy measures in Austria

Household type

Value

Diff. w.r.t. BL

Baseline

CF

COVID

CF

COVID

One adult <65, no children

24.0

28.3

25.1

4.3

(1.0)

One adult \(\ge\)65, no children

23.5

23.5

23.5

0.0

0.0

One adult with children

36.8

41.1

39.0

4.3

(2.1)

Two adults <65, no children

12.4

14.7

13.5

2.3

1.0

Two adults, at least one \(\ge\)65, no children

9.4

9.4

9.4

0.0

0.0

Two adults with one child

15.5

18.1

15.2

2.6

(− 0.3)

Two adults with two children

14.0

17.6

13.7

3.6

(− 0.3)

Two adults with three or more children

24.3

29.6

24.7

5.3

(0.4)

Three or more adults, no children

4.6

5.7

5.3

1.1

(0.7)

Three or more adults with children

14.1

14.9

14.7

0.8

(0.5)

All

14.8

17.0

15.2

2.2

0.4

  1. Poverty line is anchored at EUR 16,086.58 (using \(60\%\) of median equivalized household disposable income as the poverty line). Values highlighted in brackets are not statistically significant (95% CI)