Single-parent families, those made up of the father or mother and a dependent child, are the ones that encounter the most economic difficulties in the Valencian Community. According to the Living Conditions Survey (2022) published yesterday by the Valencian Institute of Statistics (IVE), households with an adult and at least one dependent child place their poverty rate at 42.7%. This is followed, with a difference of more than 20 points, by households occupied by a single woman, and then by households occupied by people aged 65 or over.
The survey also reveals differences by gender, since the percentage of the population below the poverty risk threshold is 18.0% of the population (calculated with income data for 2021), but this rate is 18.2 % in the case of women, and 17.7% in that of men. If imputed rent is included as household income, the poverty rate falls two points, to 16.0%.
Other conclusions from the statistics are that the percentage of people below the poverty risk threshold varies between 13.8% if they are Spanish and 49.0% if their nationality is from a country outside the European Union. Another of the indicators reveals that the higher the level of studies, the lower the risk of poverty; in fact, for graduates the poverty risk rate is 9.5%, while for those with only primary education it reaches 25.1%.
In general, the poverty risk rate for the Valencian Community in 2022 is 22.3%, 1.9 points above the 20.4% in Spain and 2.8 points less than the previous year.
In a context of inflation, it is relevant to know that 34.6% of households state that they do not have the capacity to face unforeseen expenses, 1.8 points more than the previous year. However, the IVE highlights that the figure is less than the 35.5% corresponding to Spain.
Likewise, 20.4% of Valencian households also state that they make it to the end of the month "with difficulty or great difficulty", although this indicator is 0.4 points below the result of the previous year, while in Spain the percentage is 21.7%.
