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. 2020 Sep 2;15(9):e0238376. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238376

Table 2. Values of the synthetic measure and the rank of countriesa) according to the level of material deprivation in 2016.

Countries Symbol of country Values of synthetic measures Rank of countries Level of material deprivation
I II I II I local approach II global approach
Bulgaria BG 0.930 0.316 1 2 very high low
Romania RO 0.855 0.295 2 3
Serbia* RS 0.807 0.279 3 5
Macedonia* MK 0.736 0.328 4 1 high
Greece EL 0.729 0.287 5 4
Hungary HU 0.700 0.243 6 8
Latvia LV 0.646 0.234 7 10
Croatia HR 0.640 0.264 8 6
Lithuania LT 0.634 0.238 9 9
Portugal PT 0.492 0.201 10 11 medium
Cyprus CY 0.487 0.249 11 7
Poland PL 0.459 0.180 12 15 very low
Slovakia SK 0.453 0.194 13 13
Italy IT 0.450 0.200 14 12
Ireland IE 0.372 0.187 15 14 low
Denmark DK 0.354 0.096 16 27
Belgium BE 0.354 0.124 17 23
Estonia EE 0.353 0.145 18 19
Slovenia SI 0.332 0.165 19 17
United Kingdom* UK 0.327 0.154 20 18
Spain ES 0.313 0.179 21 16
Malta MT 0.265 0.140 22 21
Czechia CZ 0.263 0.142 23 20
Finland FI 0.261 0.114 24 25
Austria AT 0.246 0.095 25 28
Switzerland* CH 0.246 0.081 26 31
France FR 0.222 0.131 27 22
Germany DE 0.215 0.117 28 24
Norway* NO 0.204 0.066 29 33
Iceland* IS 0.190 0.113 30 26 very low
Netherlands NL 0.176 0.093 31 29
Luxembourg LU 0.090 0.086 32 30
Sweden SE 0.051 0.075 33 32
EU28 EU 0.437 0.163 × × medium very low
EA19 EA19 0.311 0.153 × × medium very low
Max 0.930 0.328 ×
Min 0.051 0.066
Range 0.879 0.262
Average 0.420 0.176
Coefficient of variation (%) 53.99 42.58

* non-EU countries

EU28 –current composition of European Union (28 countries)–with United Kingdom; EA19 –euro area (19 countries).

a) Linear ordering of countries based on the values of synthetic measure obtained by: approach I–local (relative) situation, approach II–global (absolute) situation.

Source: own calculations based on data from Eurostat [68].