Table 1.

Accumulation of disadvantages and people affected by economic, social, and health disadvantages.

How Do Disadvantages Accumulate?	Less well-off compared to the wider population, no accumulated disadvantage, 24.7% (N = 693)	Severe economic disadvantage (without other disadvantages), 33.7% (N = 945)	Strongly accumulated economic, social, and health disadvantage, 41.5% (N = 1163)
What does it mean?	Does not suffer from severe economic or accumulated disadvantage	Suffers from severe economic disadvantage, but not from social or health disadvantages; has difficulties in making ends meet and paying debts; is dissatisfied with the current standard of living and has experiences of insufficient support	Severe economic disadvantages; disadvantages in mental and physical health and lower levels of life satisfaction; social disadvantages such as hunger, loneliness, and depression
Who is affected?	Pensioners and the working poor living on social assistance or a guarantee pension and experiencing high levels of scarcity	Young people, students, and people with families	The homeless and people living in supported housing, the unemployed and laid-off, substance abusers, people considering themselves disadvantaged, people with the least money to spend freely, and people using last-resort social support